al-Qiyās al-ṣaghīr

The Short Treatise on the Syllogism is a compact account of the Prior Analytics, also known as the logic 'in the way of the theologians'. It covers the three figures and their valid moods, justified by reduction to the first figure, and chains of compound syllogisms. Its distinctive aim is to read the arguments of the mutakallimūn and the analogical reasoning (qiyās) of the jurists as syllogisms; some manuscripts add a closing section on 'transfer' and its use in jurisprudence. It is an early example of the effort to show that logic serves kalām and fiqh, which al-Ghazālī later made central.

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