al-Jumal

A very short summary of the principles and rules of logic — 'four leaves', in Ibn Khaldūn's words — which, he says, the students of his own time used and profited from. It became the basic logic text of the Maghrib: Ibn Khaldūn's teacher al-Sharīf al-Tilimsānī, Ibn Marzūq al-Ḥafīd (Nihāyat al-amal), Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nadrūmī (Kifāyat al-ʿamal) and al-Sanūsī commented on it, Ibn Wāṣil wrote an early commentary, and Ibn Marzūq put it into verse, which al-Biqāʿī reworked in 861/1457. A commentary on it was later wrongly ascribed to al-Jurjānī. It is the root of the North African line of short logic handbooks that leads to al-Sanūsī.

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