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    What is new on manṭiq and its neighbouring sciences — kalām, falsafa, uṣūl al-fiqh, munāẓara, ʿilm al-waḍʿ, grammar and rhetoric — in three sections: academic work, new publications, and talks and media; each with a link.

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    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Menâru'l-envâr'ın Yeniden İnşası: Hülâsatü'l-efkâr (Delâlet Mefhumu Üzerinden Istılahî Bir Tahlil) (Reconstruction of Manār al-anwār: Khulāṣat al-afkār, a Terminological Analysis of the Concept of Dalāla)

      Sümeyye Karaş (İslam Hukuku Araştırmaları Dergisi)

      Studies Ibn Quṭlūbughā's Khulāṣat al-afkār, a reworking of al-Nasafī's Manār al-anwār, through its use of dalāla (signification). Later Ḥanafī uṣūl authors drew on grammar, rhetoric, logic and the art of debate (munāẓara) to tie words to meanings, and the article reads dalāla here as both a grammatical and a logical term. It argues that the Khulāṣa reconstructs the Manār, the base text of Nūr al-anwār.

    • · Academic · Study · Munāẓara

      Munāẓara and Islamic Traditions of Argument (chapter 41 of The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory)

      Rahmi Oruç; eds. Scott Aikin, John Casey, Katharina Stevens (Routledge)

      A handbook chapter that questions the story in which argumentation studies begin in ancient Greece and decline into formal logic. It surveys Islamic argumentation and introduces munāẓara in three senses: an argumentation theory, a truth-seeking inquiry between disagreeing parties and an actual debate, arguing that Walton and Krabbe's dialogue types cannot capture it. The handbook carries a 2026 copyright.

    • · Academic · Study · Kalām

      Şerhu'l-Akâid Hâşiyelerinde Burhân-ı Tatbîkin Kapsamı Tartışmaları: Hayâlî, Kestelî, Ramazan Efendi (Debates on the Scope of the Proof by Correspondence in the Glosses on Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid)

      Güvenç Şensoy (İslam Medeniyeti Araştırmaları Dergisi)

      Examines how three Ottoman glossators of al-Taftāzānī's Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid tested burhān al-taṭbīq, the proof by correspondence used in kalām against an actually infinite series. Al-Khayālī weighs its strengths and weaknesses, al-Kastalī doubts that it works for individual cases, and Ramaḍān Efendi limits it to the external world. The gloss appears as a place of real argument about the validity of a proof.

    • · Academic · Study · Naḥw & balāgha

      Nahiv İlminin Doğuşu Hususunda Oryantalist Nazariyelerin Analizi (Analysis of Orientalist Theories Regarding the Emergence of Arabic Grammar)

      Talip İçöz (Atatürk University); Van İlahiyat Dergisi 13/23

      The article reviews the nineteenth-century claims, beginning with Albert Merx, that Greek models shaped Arabic grammar, and the later variants pointing to Syriac, Latin, Sanskrit or Persian influence. The author argues that Arabic grammar grew from the language's own internal dynamics. The question of Greek influence is the historical background of the grammar–logic debate.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Falsafa

      Engaging the Master: Critical Thoughts in and on Avicenna's al-Mubāḥathāt (5th meeting of the Avicenna Study Group)

      Kübra Bahci and Andreas Lammer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

      Fifteen papers (Bochum, 2–4 December 2025) on al-Mubāḥathāt, the record of Ibn Sīnā's discussions with his disciples, whose value as a source is disputed. Held at the new Avicenna Study Center within the ERC project ALIVE (Avicenna Live), which studies his teachers and students; the organisers plan a website for a collaborative English translation.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Manṭiq

      Theories of Definition in Islamicate Philosophy (tutorial at UNILOG 2025, Cusco)

      Sherif Salem (University Canada West)

      A three-session tutorial at the 8th World School on Universal Logic (Cusco, 4–8 December 2025) on definition as the link between conception and demonstration. It reads Avicenna's account, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's objections and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's replies from primary sources — the background to the chapter on definition (al-qawl al-shāriḥ) in the madrasa primers.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      An Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and the Ethical Turn in Islamic Law

      Mariam Sheibani (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

      A study of the Shāfiʿī jurist ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 660/1262) and his account of the law as purposive and coherent, built on human benefit (maṣlaḥa) and legal maxims (qawāʿid). It follows his formation in Ayyubid Damascus, the use of his ideas in reform in Damascus and Cairo, and their reception across the schools, in a period of legal theory the author finds understudied.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      İsmail Gelenbevî'de Mantığın Konusu ve Mevzûu'l-Mantık Risalesi (The subject matter of logic in İsmail Gelenbevî and the treatise Mawḍūʿ al-manṭiq)

      Havva Kızılçardak Özdemir

      A study of a two-page treatise attributed to the Ottoman logician Gelenbevî (d. 1791) on the old question of what logic is about: second intelligibles (the Avicennan view) or conception and assent (the view of Khūnajī and Taftāzānī). It places Gelenbevî with the 'later' scholars and is a good entry into a question raised at the very start of every logic textbook.

    • · Academic · Study · ʿIlm al-waḍʿ

      Vazʿ Teorisi ve Dilde Kesinlik Problemi: Fahreddîn er-Râzî'den Dil Felsefesine Uzanan Epistemik Bir İnceleme (The Theory of Waḍʿ and the Problem of Linguistic Certainty)

      Merter Rahmi Telkenaroğlu and Hamza Özen (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi), bilimname 54

      Starting from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's fourfold account of waḍʿ in al-Maḥṣūl and the debate over whether language is revealed or conventional, the article asks how far words can yield certain knowledge. It then follows the question through al-Ījī, ʿAlī Qūshjī, Mollā Luṭfī and the Ottoman madrasa curriculum. The certainty of verbal evidence bears directly on what counts as a demonstrative premise in logic.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Falsafa

      Mulla Sadra Symposium within the Framework of Iran–Türkiye's Shared Philosophical Heritage (Qom)

      ECO Cultural Institute (report)

      A symposium of Iranian and Turkish scholars in Qom, held on the occasion of the Turkish translation of Mullā Ṣadrā's al-Asfār al-arbaʿa. It discussed the Transcendent Philosophy (al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya), its present relevance and academic cooperation, followed by a visit to Isfahan, the city of Ṣadrā's school.

    • · Academic · Study · Kalām

      Analytic Islamic Epistemology: Critical Debates

      Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey (eds), Edinburgh University Press

      The first collected volume to bring Islamic theories of knowledge into conversation with analytic philosophy of religion, with fifteen contributors. Its part on epistemological sources in kalām treats experience in classical kalām and Ashʿarī foundationalism, including how rational reflection (naẓar) yields knowledge, the question the kalām handbooks settle in their opening chapters before turning to God.

    • · Publications · Translation · Munāẓara

      The Compendium of Seminary Texts: Twelve Parallel English-Arabic Teaching Texts

      Muhammad Emin Er; ed. and trans. Justin Poe and Marwan M. Tayyan (Lockwood Press, ASIPT series)

      An open-access English–Arabic edition of twelve intermediate primers by the Turkish scholar Muhammad Emin Er (c. 1914–2013), written for the Ottoman madrasa curriculum, with notes and a glossary of over 700 terms. Text 6, The Quintessence, is his manual of dialectic (al-Lubāb fī ʿilm al-munāẓara wa-l-ādāb); it follows text 3, a primer on logic, as in the madrasa sequence.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Logic, Soul, and World: Essays in Arabic Philosophy in Honor of Tony Street

      Asad Q. Ahmed, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour and Riccardo Strobino (eds.)

      A Brill volume (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science 130) of new essays, most of them on Arabic logic from al-Fārābī and Avicenna to the later tradition, with an interview with Tony Street. It gathers much of the current research on post-classical logic in one place.

    • · Academic · Study · Falsafa

      Rethinking Propositions Beyond Tautology: al-Suhrawardī on the Ontological Basis of Propositions

      Zehra Oruk Akman (Muş Alparslan University), Ilahiyat Studies 16/1

      An article on al-Suhrawardī's argument that statements of the form 'A is A' have no epistemic value, because subject and predicate must be distinct concepts with different roles. It shows how his Illuminationist metaphysics shapes his logic of the proposition (qaḍiyya) and compares him with medieval commentators.

    • · Academic · Study · Naḥw & balāgha

      Hasan ez-Zîbârî'nin Hâşiyetü'l-Hâşiye Ala'l-Fevâidi'z-Ziyâiyye Fî Şerhi'l-Kâfiye İsimli Şerhinde Takip Ettiği Metod (The Method of Ḥasan al-Zībārī in his Super-Gloss on al-Fawāʾid al-Ḍiyāʾiyya)

      Feridun Yıldırım (Erciyes University); Genç Mütefekkirler Dergisi 6/2

      A study of a super-gloss by Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Zībārī (late 16th–early 17th c.) on al-Isfarāyīnī's gloss on Mullā Jāmī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's Kāfiya, the grammar layer of the madrasa curriculum. It introduces the base text, commentary and gloss, gives al-Zībārī's biography and his works in grammar, logic and tafsīr, and illustrates his method with examples.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Munāẓara

      Munāẓara – Seeing Eye to Eye? Theological and Literary Arguing Practices in Comparison

      University of Münster, Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft; Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

      A conference at the University of Münster (10–12 June 2025) compared Islamic practices of disputation in theology and in literature, from debates between scholars and laypeople to literary debate texts and online platforms. A conference volume is in preparation; the University of Vienna lists for it a chapter by Kamil Öktem on al-Rāzī's account of disputation in Transoxania.

    • · Publications · Translation · Manṭiq

      The Logic of al-Fanārī: A Study and Annotated Translation of al-Fanārī's Commentary on the Īsāghūjī

      Aaron Spevack (Lockwood Press)

      An annotated English translation of al-Fawāʾid al-Fanāriyya, Shams al-Dīn al-Fanārī's (d. 1431) commentary on the Īsāghūjī, the standard first commentary in the Ottoman madrasa. Each chapter is analysed with references to the super-commentaries and with worked examples, which makes it a direct companion for a second reading of the Īsāghūjī.

      Īsāghūjī
    • · Academic · Study · Falsafa

      UnMaP: The Uncharted Margins of Philosophy (ERC Starting Grant, Ca' Foscari)

      Silvia Di Vincenzo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), with IMT Lucca and CNR-ILC

      A five-year ERC project (from March 2025) on the marginal notes in over 200 manuscripts of Ibn Sīnā's al-Shifāʾ, copied over seven centuries from Spain to India, using AI-assisted palaeography to identify scribes and readers. Its corpus is the logic of the Shifāʾ, so it traces how Avicennian logic was actually read and taught.

    • · Publications · Translation · Kalām

      Kitāb al-Tawḥīd: The Book of Monotheism

      Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; ed. Ramon Harvey, tr. Tahir Uluç (İbn Haldun University Press)

      A complete English translation, in two volumes, of al-Māturīdī's Kitāb al-Tawḥīd, the founding text of the Māturīdī school of Sunnī kalām and perhaps the oldest surviving work to treat tawḥīd across every aspect of existence. The book opens with the ways to knowledge (the senses, reports and rational reflection, naẓar), the starting point of later Māturīdī discussions of proof (dalīl).

    • · Talks & media · Event · Munāẓara

      المؤتمر الدولي الثاني للمناظرة والحوار (Second International Conference on Debate and Dialogue)

      QatarDebate Center, Qatar Foundation

      The second edition of this conference, held on 19–20 May 2025 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, linked research in philosophy, education, linguistics and the Islamic sciences. Sessions treated disputation in Islamic manuscripts and in law and thought, and an exhibition showed rare manuscripts of the Islamic debate tradition. Selected papers later appeared in a special issue of Informal Logic.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Manṭiq

      Logic in Reverse Redux: Illegitimate Argumentative Moves in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Medieval Traditions (ERC Synergy project)

      CNRS, University of Geneva and partners

      A six-year ERC project (2025–2031) on how medieval traditions, Arabic among them, classified and judged fallacious arguments. It will build an open-access encyclopaedia of illegitimate argumentative moves — relevant to the art of sophistry (mughālaṭa) that closes the classical logic books.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Falsafa

      The Legacy of Avicennism in Nineteenth-Century South Asia (Max Bruce Lecture, University of Chicago)

      Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley)

      A lecture on how nineteenth-century South Asian scholars received Ibn Sīnā's distinction between essence and existence. It follows a treatise on simple and compound generation (jaʿl) that traces the debate from the Illuminationists and Peripatetics through Isfahan and Shiraz to India, and asks why the question mattered there.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Kalām

      Maturidism – A Doctrine of Tolerance, Moderation, and Enlightenment (international conference, Samarkand)

      Samarkand, Uzbekistan; ICESCO among the participants

      A two-day international conference in Samarkand (29–30 April 2025) on the legacy of Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī and his contribution to the Islamic sciences, attended by scholars, ministers and international institutions. Speakers called for a renewal of ʿilm al-kalām to meet modern questions, including those raised by technological change.

    • · Publications · Edition · Falsafa

      Abū ʾl-ʿAbbās al-Lawkarī (d. after 503/1109): Bayān al-ḥaqq bi-ḍamān al-ṣidq. An Early 'Reader' in Avicenna's Philosophy

      Mohammad Javad Esmaeili and Joep Lameer; Brill

      An edition of the first two books of the natural philosophy of al-Lawkarī's Bayān al-ḥaqq, a teacher's manual of Avicennian philosophy by a second-generation student of Ibn Sīnā, who spread his thought in Khorasan in the time of al-Ghazālī. It shows the early textbook form of falsafa and its tacit use of Bahmanyār.

    • · Academic · Study · ʿIlm al-waḍʿ

      Karâfî'nin Vaz‘ Teorisi ve Mahallî'nin Eleştirileri: Fıkıh Usulünde Kavramsal Bir Tartışma (al-Qarāfī's Theory of Waḍʿ and al-Maḥallī's Criticisms)

      Şeyma Yeşilyayla, İslam Medeniyeti Araştırmaları Dergisi 10/1

      The article examines al-Qarāfī's (d. 684/1285) division of coinage into linguistic, customary and legal kinds, and al-Maḥallī's (d. 864/1459) objection that linguistic and legal coinage do not differ in essence. It argues that al-Qarāfī's explanation of customary and legal coinage through frequency of use is original. Logic handbooks draw the same lines in their chapter on words, where a transferred term (manqūl) is customary or legal.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Kalām

      Workshop: The Philosophy of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

      Peter Adamson, Frank Griffel and Damien Janos (Yale University and LMU Munich)

      A two-day workshop at Yale (4–5 April 2025) on al-Rāzī, the theologian who set the agenda of post-classical kalām, covering the eternity of the world, ethics, law, exegesis, astrology, incantations and poetics. Riccardo Strobino spoke on al-Rāzī's logic, the field in which his revisions of Avicenna fed into the later madrasa textbooks.

    • · Academic · Study · ʿIlm al-waḍʿ

      ʿAlī Qushjī's Philosophy of Language: On the Metaphysical Principle of Linguistic Existence

      Abdullah Yıldırım (İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Nazariyat 11/1

      The article reads the waḍʿ section of ʿAlī Qūshjī's ʿUnqūd al-zawāhir as an inquiry into the foundations of language, in which coinage grounds lexicography and, through it, morphology, grammar and rhetoric. It connects the universal and particular sides of waḍʿ and shows how word and meaning take shape as signification. Signification (dalāla) is the point where this theory meets the opening chapter of logic.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Discerning Religious Truth: A Didactic Exposition of the Logic and Epistemology of the Islamic Sciences

      Hamza Karamali, Marwan Tayyan and Justin Poe (Lockwood Press)

      A teaching book built on al-Khabīṣī's (d. 1640) commentary on Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb al-manṭiq and its glosses, explained in the language of modern analytic philosophy. It is meant to help madrasa-trained students and philosophers read the same logic together.

      Tahdhīb al-manṭiq
    • · Academic · Study · Kalām

      Wesensattribute Gottes in der Theologie Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidīs (The Essential Attributes of God in the Theology of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī)

      Ahmed Husić (De Gruyter Brill)

      An open-access German monograph on the seven essential attributes of God in Ashʿarī theology, centred on Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (d. 1233). It regroups them as power, will and knowledge; life and sight; hearing and speech, and relates al-Āmidī's views to present-day debates. Fourth volume of Kalām Studies, a new series on kalām from the formative to the modern period.

    • · Publications · Translation · Kalām

      Theology Abstracted: An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād

      Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi (The Shīʿah Institute)

      A new critical edition of al-Ṭūsī's Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād, based on the author's signed manuscript and the text embedded in al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī's commentary, with a facing English translation. The Tajrīd is the foundational handbook of Twelver Shīʿī kalām; its opening books on general metaphysics, substance and accident set a philosophical vocabulary that Sunnī commentators such as al-Qūshjī also took up.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries (sourcebook volume on logic, language and epistemology)

      Peter Adamson, Fedor Benevich and Dustin Klinger (Brill)

      The second sourcebook of the 'Heirs of Avicenna' series translates and analyses hundreds of passages from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries on logic, philosophy of language and knowledge — the subject matter of logic, syllogistic, paradoxes. These are the debates out of which the Shamsiyya and the other post-Avicennan primers grew.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      استدراكات سعد الدين التفتازاني على الأصوليين في مبحثي الأمر والنهي (al-Taftāzānī's Corrections of the Legal Theorists on Command and Prohibition)

      Ameur Aljoud Mekki (Islamic University of Madinah), Jazan University Journal of Human Sciences

      Examines the corrections (istidrākāt) that Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī makes on command (amr) and prohibition (nahy) in his gloss on al-ʿAḍud al-Ījī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's Mukhtaṣar. Seven cases are studied, aimed at al-Ghazālī and earlier commentators on the Mukhtaṣar such as Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī and al-Ījī himself; the author judges six of them sound and lists the formulas al-Taftāzānī uses.

    • · Academic · Study · Naḥw & balāgha

      Mobile Manuscripts: Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean

      Christopher D. Bahl (Durham University); Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Oceanic Histories

      The book follows Arabic learning as a form of mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, tracing manuscripts from Egypt and the Hijaz through Yemen to Gujarat and the Deccan. Drawing on manuscripts in eight archives and their marginal notes, it includes a chapter on Arabic philology in early modern South Asia, where the madrasa grammar curriculum later took shape.

    • · Publications · Edition · Kalām

      Imāmī Thought in Iran during the Ilkhanid Period: The Ḥimṣī Rāzī Family

      Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, with Hamid Ataei Nazari (Brill)

      Reconstructs a family of Twelver Shīʿī scholars active in Iran in the 13th–14th centuries from ownership notes, colophons, marginalia and ijāzas in German, Iranian and Turkish libraries, filling part of the gap between al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. It includes the first edition of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥimṣī al-Rāzī's Mishkāt al-yaqīn fī uṣūl al-dīn.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Rational Force of Analogy/Qiyas in Law: Logic of Law in Islamic and Contemporary Legal Reasoning

      Muhammed Komath (Ibn Haldun University), Informal Logic 45/3

      Asks what gives legal analogy its rational force and answers with a logical justification, drawing mainly on al-Ghazālī's al-Mustaṣfā and his book on dialectic, al-Muntakhal fī al-jadal. It argues that al-Ghazālī's model of qiyās combines elements of Scott Brewer's abduction model and Douglas Walton's defeasible argument. Published in Informal Logic, it sets the Mustaṣfā's logic-based account of qiyās beside modern argumentation theory.

    • · Publications · Edition · Falsafa

      Averroes's 'Concession to Avicenna': Introduction, First Edition, English Translation, and Textual Tradition

      Yoav Meyrav and Giovanni Licata, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 35

      A first edition of the Hebrew and early Latin versions of the seventh chapter of Ibn Rushd's De substantia orbis, whose Arabic is lost, with an English translation and analysis (open access). In it Ibn Rushd briefly accepts Ibn Sīnā's modal distinction between necessary in itself and possible in itself but necessary through another, placing the shift only in the intellect's abstraction.

    • · Academic · Study · Falsafa

      Language and Being in al-Fārābī: The Philosophy of Taškīk

      Rosabel P. Ansari (Stony Brook University); Oxford University Press

      A monograph on al-Fārābī's theory that 'being' is predicated neither purely homonymously nor purely synonymously but 'amphibolously' (taškīk), and on its later use up to at least the fifteenth century. It is the background of the logicians' division of terms into univocal (mutawāṭiʾ) and modulated (mushakkik), and argues that for al-Fārābī language rests on an ontological basis.

    • · Academic · Study · Naḥw & balāgha

      Teftâzânî'nin Mutavvel'indeki Mantık Referanslı İlkeler (Logic-Referenced Principles in Taftāzānī's Muṭawwal)

      Hasan Uçar (Selçuk University); İslami Araştırmalar 36/2

      The article traces how balāgha drew on logic from al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī to al-Taftāzānī, and lists the logical principles that al-Taftāzānī either took from logic or formulated himself in his Muṭawwal on the Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ. It shows how he applied them to Qurʾānic verses and rhetorical topics, using universal logical rules as explicit references within rhetoric.

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    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Mantık İlmi Açısından İki Önemli Eser: Mizânu'l-Ukûl ve Felsefe Dersleri (Two important works on logic: Mīzān al-ʿuqūl and Felsefe Dersleri)

      Remziye Selçuk (Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi)

      Compares two late Ottoman logic textbooks, Ali Sedad's Mīzān al-ʿuqūl and İzmirli İsmail Hakkı's Felsefe Dersleri, which teach classical logic alongside Western method and early symbolic logic. It shows how teachers trained in the madrasa logic met modern logic.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Molla Hüsrev'in Mir'âtü'l-Usûl Adlı Eserinin Tahkiklerinde Yapılan Hatalar Üzerine Bazı Mülahazalar (Some Considerations on Mistakes in the Editions of Mullā Khusraw's al-Mirʾāt)

      Davut İltaş (Tahkik: Journal of Critical Editions of Islamic Manuscripts)

      Mullā Khusraw's (d. 885/1480) Mirqāt al-wuṣūl, with his own commentary Mirʾāt al-uṣūl, was a standard Ḥanafī uṣūl textbook of the Ottoman madrasas. Working from the author's autograph copies while preparing a Turkish translation, the article checks four modern editions (2005–2022) and documents their errors, many caused by reliance on later copies or by failure to separate text from commentary.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      The Search for Originality within Established Boundaries: Rereading Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī (d. 716/1316) on Public Interest (maṣlaḥa) and the Purpose of the Law

      Serdar Kurnaz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Religions 14/12

      Rereads the Ḥanbalī jurist Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī, whose hadith commentary al-Taʿyīn gives public interest (maṣlaḥa) priority over Qurʾān, Sunna and consensus when they conflict. Against modern readings that either inflate or dismiss him, the article places his theory within the epistemological and hermeneutical limits he himself accepted and in its historical setting, and presents it as an original attempt within an established framework. Open access.

    • · Publications · Digital · Manṭiq

      OpenITI corpus release 2023.1.8

      KITAB project / OpenITI

      An open-access release of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative corpus: about 8,600 premodern books (13,158 text files) in machine-readable form. Many logic texts and commentaries can be searched and compared in it alongside the rest of the Arabic library.

    • · Publications · Translation · Munāẓara

      Avicenne, Kitāb al-Ǧadal, vol. 1: La Dialectique (Avicenna, The Book of Dialectic, vol. 1)

      Fouad Mlih (Vrin, Études musulmanes)

      French translation of Avicenna's Kitāb al-Jadal, his reworking of Aristotle's Topics, presented as the first translation of the work into a European language (402 pages). In the Shifāʾ the Topics belong to logic, as the art of arguing from widely accepted premises; the later ādāb al-baḥth drew on this philosophical jadal as well as on kalām and uṣūl.

    • · Publications · Edition · Manṭiq

      The New Isaguji of Dawud Qarsi (al-Īsāghūjī al-jadīd)

      Khaled El-Rouayheb (Nazariyat 9/2)

      An edition of the 'New Īsāghūjī' by the Ottoman scholar Dāwūd Qārṣī (d. c. 1756), with an introduction comparing it with al-Abharī's original. Twice as long as Abharī's text, it builds in the debates of five centuries of logic, which makes it a good bridge from the matn to the commentaries.

      Īsāghūjī
    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Beginnings or Principles: Commentaries and Glosses on the Notion of Mabādiʾ in Ibn al-Ḥājib's Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahā

      Kenan Tekin (Yalova University), Nazariyat 9/2

      Follows the fourteenth-century commentaries and glosses on the opening of Ibn al-Ḥājib's Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahā, among them al-Taftāzānī and al-Jurjānī, and their debate over whether mabādiʾ means 'principles' or 'beginnings'. It shows legal theory presented along the Aristotelian theory of science (subject matter, principles, problems), the scheme the logic handbooks teach, and a later argument that a science has one genuine element.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Manṭiq

      Reviving Logic and Critical Thinking in Islamic Institutions (two-day intensive, Mississauga and online)

      Hamza Karamali (Basira Education)

      A two-day seminar (26–27 August 2023) for teachers and students on the classical Islamic approach to logic and knowledge and its use in modern philosophical questions. It is one example of madrasa logic being taught again outside the traditional curriculum.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Women's Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy

      Saloua Chatti (ed.)

      A Springer volume (Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning) of essays by women scholars on Arabic philosophy from the ninth to the twentieth century, with a strong logic section, including Saloua Chatti's chapter on hypothetical logic. It widens the range of voices in the study of Arabic logic.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      شیخ ملّا جیون کی حیات اور عربی شروحات منار کا اختصاصی مطالعہ (Shaykh Mullā Jīwan: Biography and a Particular Study of the Arabic Commentaries on the Manār)

      Hafiz Ahmed Saeed Rana, International Research Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies

      An Urdu article from Pakistan on Mullā Jīwan of Amethi (1638–1718), the Indian scholar whose Nūr al-anwār, a commentary on al-Nasafī's Manār al-anwār, is still taught in South Asian madrasas. It sets out his life, learning and works and studies the Nūr al-anwār among the Arabic commentaries on the Manār, with the aim of prompting further research on him.

    • · Publications · Digital · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Twelver Uṣūl Bibliography (TUB)

      Kumail Rajani and Robert Gleave (University of Exeter)

      A database of Twelver Shīʿī legal theory built in Robert Gleave's ERC project LAWALISI at the University of Exeter and introduced in a series of four essays. It records 1,804 uṣūl titles by 797 authors from the 5th/11th to the 14th/20th century, with 3,662 manuscripts and 232 editions; most titles survive only in manuscript. At launch access was limited to the team, with open access planned.

    • · Academic · Study · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Exploring the Mind of God: An Introduction to Shiʿite Legal Epistemology

      Hashim Bata (Brill, Studies in Islamic Law and Society)

      An introduction to the epistemology of Twelver Shīʿī uṣūl al-fiqh, with chapters on the non-authoritativeness of conjecture (ẓann), the authority of certainty and of substantiated conjecture, and their consequences for ijtihād. It examines the foundations used by Uṣūlī jurists since the nineteenth century, explores the relation of uṣūl to philosophy, and argues that the discipline has room for other epistemological theories.

    • · Publications · Edition · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Langage et théologie chez Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (543/1148): Les informations subtiles de la somme de théorie légale (Nukat al-Maḥṣūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūl) (Language and Theology in Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī)

      Ilyass Amharar (Gorgias Press, Islamic History and Thought 31)

      A critical edition, French translation and commentary of Nukat al-Maḥṣūl, the summary of legal theory by the Andalusian Mālikī judge and Ashʿarī theologian Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī, a disciple of al-Ghazālī. It reads his uṣūl as 'articulated between language and theology' and traces his part in bringing Ashʿarism to the Muslim West. A review in BCAI 39 (2025) notes the text had appeared before.

    • · Academic · Study · ʿIlm al-waḍʿ

      Vaz' İlminin Bilim Tasnifindeki Yerinin Tespiti (Determining the Place of Waḍʿ in the Classification of the Sciences)

      Zahit Kaplangöz (Aksaray Üniversitesi), Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 10/1

      Testing the claim that waḍʿ anticipates modern linguistics, the article reviews ten classical waḍʿ works to set out the field's core and secondary topics. It then compares waḍʿ with linguistics, lexicology, lexicography and semiotics.

    • · Talks & media · Event · Manṭiq

      International Conference on the History of Logic in the Islamic World (Tehran and online)

      Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) with IRFS

      A three-day conference (6–8 March 2023) on pre-Avicennan, Avicennan and post-Avicennan logic and on comparative logic. It brought together the Iranian school of historians of logic, who have done much work on Khūnajī, Samarqandī and the later textbooks, with international scholars.

    • · Publications · Edition · Uṣūl al-fiqh

      Shiʿite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries

      Kumail Rajani and Robert Gleave (eds.), Edinburgh University Press / Gibb Memorial Trust

      A volume that treats the Shīʿī strands of uṣūl al-fiqh, Zaydī, Ismāʿīlī and Twelver, as one family of traditions. It edits previously unpublished texts from Yemen, Iraq and Safavid Iran, spanning roughly the 11th to the 18th century, with studies on ijtihād, the epistemic value of hadith, consensus, analogy (qiyās) and the legal authority of the imams.

    • · Publications · Translation · Falsafa

      The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries. Metaphysics and Theology

      Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich; Brill

      The first volume of a sourcebook series on the reception of Ibn Sīnā from Syria to Central Asia, with translated and analysed passages from al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī and others. It covers essence and existence, universals, free will, Platonic Forms, proofs of God and philosophy versus theology; available through OAPEN.

    • · Academic · Study · Naḥw & balāgha

      What is a Kalima, What is a Definition: The Relationship between Logic and Grammar in the Later Arabic Linguistic Tradition

      Muhammed Volkan Yildiran Stodolsky; posted by ASIPT

      The paper compares the definitions of kalima by al-Zamakhsharī, Ibn al-Ḥājib (Kāfiya) and Ibn Hishām (Qaṭr al-nadā), judged through Jāmī's al-Fawāʾid al-ḍiyāʾiyya. Ibn Hishām applies the logicians' strict standard of definition, with proximate genus, as taught in the Īsāghūjī; Jāmī and later glossators held that grammarians care more about distinguishing a term than about its essence.

    • · Academic · Study · Naḥw & balāgha

      (Re-)Forging the Science of Bayān: ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī in the Early Twentieth Century

      Mostafa Najafi (University of Lucerne); Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 23

      The article studies how Muḥammad ʿAbduh in Egypt and Hellmut Ritter in Germany revived ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's works on bayān in the early twentieth century, and argues that together they shaped the image of al-Jurjānī that still prevails. That image, the author holds, was formed in the long shadow of falsafa; ʿAbduh also promoted Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī's logic, al-Baṣāʾir al-Naṣīriyya.

    2022

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Osmanlı'da İlm-i Mantık ve Münazara (Logic and Dialectics in the Ottoman Empire)

      Mehmet Özturan, Yusuf Daşdemir and Furkan Kayacan (eds.)

      The proceedings of the symposium in the 'Sciences in the Ottoman Empire' series devoted to logic and the art of disputation, with contributions by Necmettin Pehlivan, Walter Edward Young and others. It is the broadest recent survey of how logic and munāẓara were taught and written in Ottoman madrasas.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Affirmation and Negation: Reading Avicenna's al-ʿIbāra alongside Hellenistic Commentators

      E. Burak Şaman (Nazariyat 8/1)

      An article on whether affirmation is prior to negation in Avicenna's commentary on De interpretatione, read against Alexander, Porphyry and Syrianus. It sheds light on the background of the chapter on propositions (qaḍāyā) in the later textbooks.

    • · Publications · Translation · Manṭiq

      Isagoge: A Classical Primer on Logic

      Feryal Salem (Blue Mountain Press)

      The vocalised Arabic text of al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī with a facing English translation, followed by a commentary with diagrams and tables. One of the few English editions made for students reading the matn itself.

      Īsāghūjī
    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Konsep logik Muhammad bin Yusuf al-Sanusi: Kajian terhadap Mukhtasar fi ʿIlm al-Mantiq (Al-Sanūsī's concept of logic: a study of his Mukhtaṣar)

      Nurfarzana Nizam (Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya)

      A Malay-language master's thesis (Universiti Malaya) on al-Sanūsī's Mukhtaṣar in logic, covering signification, utterance, definition, propositions and syllogism, with a list of his technical terms. It reflects the place of Sanūsī's logic in Southeast Asian Islamic education.

    • · Publications · Digital · Manṭiq

      Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions

      Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin with Leipzig University (DFG-funded)

      A portal for the oriental manuscripts held in Germany, with metadata and digital copies for more than 120,000 objects (as of 2024) in 170 languages. Arabic and Persian copies of logic texts and their glosses in German libraries can be found and often read here.

    • · Academic · Study · Manṭiq

      Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia

      Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California Press)

      An open-access study built around Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī's Sullam al-ʿulūm, the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, with its first full English translation and commentary. It explains the Khayrābādī commentary culture around the Sullam and argues against the story of post-classical decline.

      Sullam al-ʿulūm
    • · Publications · Edition · Manṭiq

      Commentary on the Jumal on Logic by Khūnajī (Ibn Wāṣil al-Ḥamawī)

      Khaled El-Rouayheb (ed.) (Brill)

      The first critical edition of Ibn Wāṣil's (d. 1298) commentary on Khūnajī's handbook al-Jumal. It shows a thirteenth-century commentator weighing and correcting received views, the same 'later logic' (manṭiq al-mutaʾakhkhirīn) that shaped the Shamsiyya.

    • · Publications · Translation · Manṭiq

      تطور المنطق العربي (Taṭawwur al-manṭiq al-ʿarabī — Arabic translation of The Development of Arabic Logic, 1200–1800)

      Ahmed Shokry Mogahed (translator)

      An Arabic translation of El-Rouayheb's survey of later Arabic logic, made with the Nohoudh Center; it won the encouragement prize of the eighth (2022) Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation. It makes the main modern history of post-Avicennan logic available to readers trained in Arabic.

    • · Publications · Edition · Falsafa

      al-Risāla fī taḥqīq al-ʿilm wa-l-maʿlūm (Treatise on the Verification of Knowledge and the Known) by Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī

      Ghulām Ḥaydar Khayrābādī (ed.); Maktaba al-Ghanim

      An annotated Arabic edition, based on manuscripts, of Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī's treatise on the nature of knowledge and its relation to the known object, including mental existence and the views of philosophers and theologians. A text of the Indian ḥikma tradition on the question behind the division of knowledge into conception (taṣawwur) and assent (taṣdīq).

    2021

    2020

    • · Publications · Translation · Manṭiq

      The Rebuttal of the Logicians (al-Radd ʿalā al-manṭiqiyyīn)

      Asadullah Yate and Sameh Mustafa Asal (trans.), Dheen Mohamed (ed.) (Garnet Publishing)

      An English translation of Ibn Taymiyya's full critique of Greek logic, aimed at its theory of definition and its claim that the syllogism yields certainty. Reading the strongest classical objections is part of understanding why the logicians framed definition and demonstration as they did.

    • · Publications · Translation · Manṭiq

      Al-Fārābī, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics

      Saloua Chatti and Wilfrid Hodges (Bloomsbury Academic)

      An English translation, with introduction, of al-Fārābī's short book on the syllogism, in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series. It shows the syllogistic of the first great Arabic logician before Avicenna.

    • · Publications · Edition · Manṭiq

      Ibn Ṭumlūs, Compendium on Logic (al-Muḫtaṣar fī al-manṭiq)

      Fouad Ben Ahmed (ed.) (Brill)

      A critical edition with introduction, notes and indexes of the logic of the Andalusian Ibn Ṭumlūs (d. 1223), a student of the Averroist line. It documents the western, Andalusian branch of Arabic logic.

    2019