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Commentary · 12 century
تَلْخِيصُ مَنْطِقِ أَرِسْطُو
Talkhīṣ manṭiq Arisṭū
Ibn Rushd · d. 595/1198
Ibn Rushd's middle commentaries (paraphrases) cover the whole Organon: the Categories (c. 1164), De interpretatione (c. 1165), the Prior Analytics (c. 1166), the Topics (1168), Porphyry's Isagoge (c. 1170), the Posterior Analytics (1170), the Sophistical Refutations (c. 1174), the Rhetoric (1175) and the Poetics (c. 1176). They paraphrase Aristotle's text closely, and near the end of his life he also wrote a long commentary on the Posterior Analytics. These works are the last great expression of the Farabian Aristotelian tradition in Arabic; they had little following in the madrasa logic, which went the Avicennan way, but in Latin and Hebrew translation they shaped the study of Aristotle's logic in Europe.
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- Full title
- The middle commentaries (talkhīṣ) on Aristotle's logical works
- Author
- Ibn Rushd
- Died
- 595/1198
- Written
- 12 century
- Language
- Arabic
- Written on
- Aristotle's Organon
Editions and translations
الطَّبَعات
- Talkhīṣ manṭiq Arisṭū, 3 vols, Beirut: al-Maktaba al-Sharqiyya, 1982
- Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-Maqūlāt, ed. Maḥmūd Qāsim, C. E. Butterworth and A. ʿA. al-Harīdī, Cairo 1980; Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-ʿIbāra, Cairo 1981; Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-Qiyās, Cairo 1983; Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-Burhān, ed. M. Qāsim, Cairo 1982
- tr. C. E. Butterworth, Averroes' Middle Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretatione, Princeton 1983
Also by Ibn Rushd
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