160 scholars
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Scholars
The logicians, commentators, teachers and modern scholars of manṭiq, from the Greek and late-antique sources to today, by the century they died in.
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4 century BCE
3 century BCE
3 century
- Alexander of Aphrodisias · early 3rd century CEالإِسْكَنْدَرُ الأَفْرُودِيسِيُّشارحین — Peripatetic philosopher and commentator on Aristotle, active around 200 CE, whose works were widely translated into Arabic; al-Fārābī had logical writings of his in translation, and his essay On the Conversion of Propositions survives only in Arabic.
- Galen · ca. 200 CEجَالِينُوسپیش رو — Greek physician and philosopher who also wrote on logic; his great work On Demonstration is known largely through Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, al-Fārābī argued against him on modal logic, and the fourth figure of the syllogism came to be attributed to him.
4 century
- فرفوریوس · ca. 305 CEفُرْفُورِيُوسپیش رو — نوافلاطونی فلسفی جن کے ارسطو کی مقولات کے مختصر تعارف (ایساغوجی، Eisagōgē) نے ایساغوجی کو اس کا نام اور اس کا پہلا موضوع، کلیاتِ خمسہ، دیا۔
- Themistius · ca. 388 CEثَامِسْطِيُوسشارحین — Philosopher and orator of Constantinople whose paraphrases of Aristotle were read in Arabic; Abū Bishr Mattā translated his paraphrase of the Posterior Analytics, and his reply to Maximus on reducing the second and third figures to the first survives only in Arabic.
6 century
- Ammonius · ca. 517–526 CEشارحین · اساتذہ — Neoplatonist teacher at Alexandria, pupil of Proclus, who established the Alexandrian tradition of commentary on Aristotle and the course that opened with Porphyry’s Isagoge; the Fihrist knows his commentaries on the Categories and the Topics.
- بوئیتھیئس · ca. 524–526 CEمترجمین · شارحین — رومی مدبر اور فلسفی جن کے ایساغوجی کے لاطینی ترجمے اور اس پر دو شروح نے فرفوریوس کی کتاب کو قرونِ وسطیٰ کے مغرب میں منطق کا پہلا متن بنا دیا۔
- Paul the Persian · 6th century CEپیش رو — Sixth-century scholar at the Sasanian court whose treatise on Aristotle’s logic, addressed to Khusraw I Anūshirwān, brought the Alexandrian introduction to philosophy and logic into the Persian world; Miskawayh quotes him, and his division of philosophy influenced the early Islamic philosophers.
- Sergius · 536 CEمترجمین · شارحین — Syriac physician, educated at Alexandria, who translated Galen and other Greek works into Syriac and wrote Syriac treatises on Aristotle’s Categories and on the aim of Aristotle’s writings, early links in the chain that carried Greek logic and medicine to Baghdad.
- Elias · late 6th century CEشارحین — The name under which a sixth-century Alexandrian course on Porphyry’s Isagoge, with twelve introductory lectures on philosophy, has come down; with the parallel commentary of David it shows the form of the logic course that the Syriac and Arabic schools continued.
- Simplicius · ca. 560 CEشارحین — Neoplatonist commentator, pupil of Ammonius and Damascius, whose long commentary on Aristotle’s Categories was known in Arabic to the Baghdad logician Ibn Suwār.
- Olympiodorus · ca. 570 CEشارحین · اساتذہ — Holder of the chair of philosophy at Alexandria in the mid-sixth century and heir of Ammonius, whose Prolegomena to logic and teaching method were followed by the commentaries under the names of Elias and David; the Syriac and Arabic scholars knew some of his commentaries.
- John Philoponus · ca. 570 CEيَحْيَى النَّحْوِيُّشارحین — Christian scholar of Alexandria and pupil of Ammonius, whose commentaries on Aristotle’s logical works were translated into Arabic, and whose arguments against the eternity of the world were taken up by al-Kindī and the theologians; the Arabs called him Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī.
8 century
9 century
- al-Kindī · ca. 252/866أَبُو يُوسُفَ يَعْقُوبُپیش رو — The first philosopher of Islam, at the centre of a circle of translators in ninth-century Baghdad, who wrote the first original Arabic works on logic, among them an overview of the Organon and an abridgement of Porphyry’s Isagoge.
- Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq · 260/873أَبُو زَيْدٍ حُنَيْنُمترجمین · پیش رو — Nestorian Christian physician and the most famous translator of ninth-century Baghdad, who with his son Isḥāq and their circle produced complete Arabic versions of books of Aristotle’s Organon.
10 century
- Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn · 298/910أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ إِسْحَاقُمترجمین — Son and collaborator of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, who turned from medicine to philosophy and translated, among much else, Aristotle’s On Interpretation and revised the Arabic Topics and Rhetoric.
- ابو عثمان دمشقی · 302/914أَبُو عُثْمَانَ سَعِيدُمترجمین — بغداد کے طبیب اور مترجم جن کا فرفوریوس کی ایساغوجی کا عربی ترجمہ واحد ترجمہ ہے جو مکمل محفوظ ہے۔
- Abū Bishr Mattā · 328/940أَبُو بِشْرٍ مَتَّىمترجمین · شارحین · اساتذہ — Nestorian Christian logician of Baghdad who translated Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics and Poetics into Arabic from Syriac, taught al-Fārābī and Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī, and is remembered for his debate with the grammarian al-Sīrāfī on logic and grammar.
- فارابی · 339/950–1أَبُو نَصْرٍ مُحَمَّدُپیش رو · شارحین — دسویں صدی کے سب سے نمایاں عربی ارسطوئی فلسفی، جنھوں نے کلیاتِ خمسہ پر اپنی کتاب ایساغوجی ای المدخل لکھی۔
- Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī · 364/975أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا يَحْيَىمترجمین · مصنف · اساتذہ — Jacobite Christian philosopher and logician of Baghdad, student of Abū Bishr Mattā and al-Fārābī and, after al-Fārābī, head of the Baghdad school of logic, who translated and commented on books of the Organon.
- al-Sīrāfī · 368/979أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الحَسَنُمنطق پر آرا · اساتذہ — Grammarian of the Basran school and Ḥanafī jurist of Baghdad, remembered in the history of logic for his debate with the logician Abū Bishr Mattā on whether speakers of Arabic need Greek logic.
11 century
12 century
- غزالی · 505/1111أَبُو حَامِدٍ مُحَمَّدُمنطق پر آرا — شافعی فقیہ اور اشعری متکلم، جن کی طرف سے منطق کو ایک غیر جانبدار آلہ قرار دینے، جس کی ہر عالم کو ضرورت ہے، نے منطق کے سنی علمی روایت کا ایک عام حصہ بننے کا راستہ کھولا۔
- Ibn Rushd · 595/1198أَبُو الوَلِيدِ مُحَمَّدُشارحین · پیش رو — Andalusian philosopher, judge and physician, ‘the Commentator’ on Aristotle, the last great representative of the text-based logic of al-Fārābī, read afterwards mainly in North Africa and in Hebrew and Latin.
13 century
- Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī · 606/1210أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِپیش رو · مصنف · اساتذہ — Ashʿarī theologian, exegete and philosopher who criticised and reshaped Ibn Sīnā’s logic; Ibn Khaldūn names him as the first author of the new logic of the later handbooks, and al-Kātibī wrote commentaries on his al-Mulakhkhaṣ and al-Muḥaṣṣal.
- ابن الصلاح · 643/1245أَبُو عَمْرٍو تَقِيُّمنطق پر آرا — دمشق کے شافعی محدث، جن کا منطق پڑھنے کو ناجائز قرار دینے والا فتویٰ مخالف رائے کا سب سے معروف بیان ہے؛ اخضری کی السلم منع کرنے والوں میں سب سے پہلے انھی کا نام لیتی ہے۔
- al-Khūnajī · 646/1248أَفْضَلُ الدِّينِ أَبُومصنف · پیش رو · اساتذہ — Logician, physician and Shāfiʿī judge in Cairo whose Kashf al-asrār reshaped the logic of Ibn Sīnā and set the agenda for al-Abharī, al-Kātibī and the later madrasa handbooks.
- ابہری · 663/1265أَثِيرُ الدِّينِ المُفَضَّلُمصنف · اساتذہ — ساتویں صدی ہجری/تیرھویں صدی عیسوی کے منطقی، فلسفی، ماہرِ فلکیات اور ریاضی دان، جنھوں نے ایساغوجی لکھی، وہ مختصر رسالہ جو مدارس میں منطق کی پہلی کتاب بن گیا۔
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī · 672/1274نَصِيرُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُمصنف · شارحین · اساتذہ — Persian philosopher, Shīʿī theologian and astronomer, founder of the Maragha observatory, who defended Ibn Sīnā’s logic against the innovations of al-Khūnajī, al-Abharī and al-Kātibī.
- al-Kātibī · 675/1277نَجْمُ الدِّينِ أَبُومصنف · اساتذہ — Persian logician of the Maragha circle, pupil of al-Abharī, whose al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya became, with the Īsāghūjī, one of the two mainstays of madrasa logic.
- نووی · 676/1277أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا مُحْيِيمنطق پر آرا — تیرھویں صدی کے دمشق کے سب سے ممتاز شافعی عالم، جن کا نام اخضری کی السلم میں ابن الصلاح کے ساتھ ان لوگوں میں لیا گیا ہے جو منطق پڑھنے کو حرام سمجھتے تھے۔
- al-Urmawī · 682/1283أَبُو الثَّنَاءِ سِرَاجُمصنف · اساتذہ — Shāfiʿī jurist and logician of Mosul, Egypt and Seljuk Konya, author of Maṭāliʿ al-anwār, which with Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary became an advanced logic text of the Ottoman, Safavid and Indian madrasas.
- Ṣāḥib-dīwān Shams al-Dīn Juwaynī · 683/1284شَمْسُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُپیش رو — Head of the civil administration (ṣāḥib-dīwān) of the Mongol Ilkhans for more than twenty years and patron of scholars, for whom al-Kātibī wrote al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya and after whom it is named.
14 century
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī · 702/1303شَمْسُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُمصنف — Logician, theologian and mathematician of the late thirteenth century whose Qisṭās al-afkār ended with a section on the etiquette of debate, and whose short treatise on ādāb al-baḥth became the founding text of that discipline in the madrasas.
- Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī · 710/1311قُطْبُ الدِّينِ مَحْمُودُاساتذہ — Philosopher, astronomer and physician of the Ilkhanid period, a pupil of al-Kātibī and al-Ṭūsī and one of the teachers of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
- al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī · 726/1325جَمَالُ الدِّينِ الحَسَنُشارحین · اساتذہ — The leading Imāmī scholar of his age, a pupil of al-Ṭūsī and al-Kātibī, who wrote the first commentary on the Shamsiyya, al-Qawāʿid al-jaliyya, and taught Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
- ابنِ تیمیہ · 728/1328تَقِيُّ الدِّينِ أَحْمَدُمنطق پر آرا — حنبلی متکلم اور فقیہ جنھوں نے عربی میں ارسطوئی منطق پر سب سے جامع تنقید، الرد علی المنطقیین، لکھی۔
- al-ʿAḍud · 756/1355عَضُدُ الدِّينِ عَبْدُاساتذہ · مصنف — Ashʿarī theologian, legal theorist and judge of Ilkhanid and Injuid Iran, author of al-Mawāqif, whose short treatises on disputation and on semantics became madrasa texts and whose pupils are said to have included al-Taftāzānī and Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
- کاتی · 760/1358–9حُسَامُ الدِّينِ الحَسَنُشارحین — ایساغوجی کی قدیم ترین معلوم شروح میں سے ایک کے مصنف: “قال – اقول” کے انداز کی ایک مختصر شرح، جو عثمانی مدارس میں متن کی معیاری رفیق اور بہت سے حواشی کی بنیاد بن گئی۔
- Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī · 766/1365قُطْبُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُشارحین · اساتذہ — Logician of the fourteenth century whose commentaries on the Shamsiyya (Taḥrīr al-qawāʿid al-manṭiqiyya, ‘the Quṭbī’) and on the Maṭāliʿ al-anwār (Lawāmiʿ al-asrār) became the core intermediate logic texts of the madrasas from the Ottoman lands to India.
- Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī · 771/1370تَاجُ الدِّينِ أَبُومنطق پر آرا — Shāfiʿī jurist, legal theorist and biographer of Damascus whose comparison of logic to a sword, quoted by later jurists, became a standard argument for permitting its study.
- Ibn Mubārakshāh · 784/1382مِيرَكُ شَمْسُ الدِّينِشارحین · اساتذہ — Pupil of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī and teacher of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī in Cairo, whose commentaries on al-Kātibī’s Ḥikmat al-ʿayn and al-Abharī’s Hidāyat al-ḥikma became school texts.
- al-Taftāzānī · 792/1390سَعْدُ الدِّينِ مَسْعُودُمصنف · شارحین · اساتذہ — Khurasanī scholar of the eighth/fourteenth century whose Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-l-kalām became a standard logic primer, and whose books on rhetoric, theology and legal theory were read in madrasas from Istanbul to India.
15 century
- Ibn Khaldūn · 808/1406عَبْدُ الرَّحْمٰنِ ابْنُمنطق پر آرا — North African historian, judge and author of the Muqaddima, whose chapters on the sciences describe the post-Avicennan transformation of logic and treat logic as an auxiliary science.
- al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī · 816/1413السَّيِّدُ الشَّرِيفُ عَلِيُّحاشیہ نگار · مصنف · اساتذہ — Theologian, grammarian and logician whose gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya became a curriculum book in its own right, and whose Persian primers, the Ṣughrā and the Kubrā, opened the logic course of the Persian-speaking world and India.
- فناری · 834/1431شَمْسُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُشارحین · اساتذہ — ابتدائی عثمانی دور کے عالم اور عثمانی دار الحکومت میں مفتی کے عہدے کے پہلے حامل، جن کی شرح الفوائد الفناریہ ایساغوجی کی دو سب سے مشہور شروح میں سے ایک بن گئی۔
- ʿImād al-Fārisī · 850/1446عِمَادُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِحاشیہ نگار — Persian scholar of Herat whose gloss on al-Jurjānī’s gloss on the Quṭbī, nicknamed Qara Ḥāshiya, ‘the black gloss’, for its obscurity, was read and printed in the Ottoman lands.
- مولانا قراجہ احمد · 854/1450شَمْسُ الدِّينِ قَرَهحاشیہ نگار — پندرھویں صدی کے عالم جنھوں نے ایساغوجی پر کاتی کی شرح کے ابتدائی حواشی میں سے ایک لکھا۔
- ʿAlī al-ʿAjamī · 860/1456سَيِّدِي عَلِيٌّ العَجَمِيُّحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Eastern scholar, reportedly a student of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, who settled in the Ottoman lands under Murād II and wrote a gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya and al-Jurjānī’s gloss on it.
- al-Maḥallī · 864/1459جَلَالُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُشارحین · اساتذہ — Egyptian Shāfiʿī jurist and exegete, co-author of Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, who began a commentary on the Shamsiyya that he did not finish.
- Muṣannifak · 875/1470عَلَاءُ الدِّينِ عَلِيُّشارحین · اساتذہ — Persian-born scholar of the early Ottoman madrasas, a descendant of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, who taught in Konya, Bursa and Istanbul and wrote a Persian commentary on the Shamsiyya.
- تالشی · 884/1479مُحْيِي الدِّينِ التَّالِشِيّحاشیہ نگار — کاتی کی شرح پر قدیم ترین اور سب سے زیادہ پڑھے جانے والے حواشی میں سے ایک کے مصنف، جو طویل عرصے تک اناطولیہ میں مدارس کے نصاب کا حصہ رہا۔
- al-Biqāʿī · 885/1480أَبُو الحَسَنِ بُرْهَانُمصنف · منطق پر آرا — Mamluk-era scholar, best known for his Qurʾān commentary on the coherence of verses and suras, who read al-Kātibī’s Shamsiyya in 828/1425 and wrote an enlarged recension of the Īsāghūjī.
- سنوسی · 895/1490مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَشارحین — تلمسان کے عظیم اشعری متکلم، ام البراہین کے مصنف، جنھوں نے ایساغوجی کی ایک شرح بھی لکھی، جو پہلی بار ۲۰۲۵ء میں چھپی۔
- Mīr Ṣadr al-Dīn · 903/1498صَدْرُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدٌحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Philosopher of Shiraz, founder of the Dashtakī line of rational scholarship and rival of al-Dawānī, who glossed al-Jurjānī’s gloss on the Quṭbī as far as the chapter on definition and wrote glosses on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentaries on the Shamsiyya and the Maṭāliʿ.
16 century
- al-Muḥaqqiq al-Dawānī · 908/1502جَلَالُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُشارحین · حاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Persian theologian, philosopher and logician of Shiraz whose unfinished commentary on al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb, with the glosses of Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ and Mīr Zāhid, became the advanced route through the book in Iran, the Ottoman lands and India.
- al-Maghīlī · 909/1503–4أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِمنطق پر آرا — Mālikī jurist of the Maghrib and the Sahara who, in al-Suyūṭī’s lifetime, disputed his prohibition of logic in verse and in a treatise widely read in West Africa.
- Qāḍī Mīr · 909/1503–4القَاضِي مِير حُسَيْنشارحین · اساتذہ — Sunnī philosopher and judge of Yazd, pupil of al-Dawānī, whose commentary on al-Abharī’s Hidāyat al-ḥikma (‘Qāḍī Mīr’) was a madrasa textbook from Istanbul to India, and who also wrote a commentary on the Shamsiyya.
- al-Suyūṭī · 911/1505جَلَالُ الدِّينِ أَبُومنطق پر آرا · مصنف — Egyptian Shāfiʿī polymath of the late Mamluk period, the most prolific author of his age, who abridged Ibn Taymiyya’s refutation of the logicians and declared the study of logic forbidden.
- شیخ الاسلام زکریا انصاری · 926/1520زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍشارحین · اساتذہ — مملوک دور کے آخر میں قاہرہ کے ممتاز شافعی فقیہ، جن کی شرح المطلع مصر میں بارہا چھپی اور جس پر مصری علما نے حواشی لکھے۔
- بردعی · 927/1521مُحْيِي الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُحاشیہ نگار — ایساغوجی پر کاتی کی شرح کے ایک معروف حاشیے کے مصنف، جس پر بعد کے علما نے بھی حواشی لکھے۔
- حکیم شاہ قزوینی · 929/1523حَكِيم شَاه مُحَمَّدُشارحین — شیراز کے تربیت یافتہ عالم جو عثمانی دربار میں طبیب بنے، اور جنھیں حوالہ جاتی کتابیں ایساغوجی کے شارحین میں شمار کرتی ہیں۔
- ʿIṣām al-Dīn · 944/1537عِصَامُ الدِّينِ إِبْرَاهِيمُحاشیہ نگار · شارحین · اساتذہ — Khurasanian master of grammar, rhetoric, logic and theology, whose glosses on standard madrasa texts, among them Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya, were printed in Istanbul and Cairo.
- عطوفی · 948/1541خَيْرُ الدِّينِ خِضْرُشارحین · اساتذہ — سولھویں صدی کے اوائل کے عثمانی مدرس اور واعظ، جنھیں حاجی خلیفہ اور TDV ایساغوجی کے شارحین میں شمار کرتے ہیں۔
- Kara Dâvud · 948/1541قَرَه دَاوُد بْنُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Ottoman professor and judge of Bursa to whom the TDV and Brockelmann ascribe the gloss on al-Jurjānī’s ‘small gloss’ on the Quṭbī that Ottoman medreses read with the Shamsiyya; Ḥājjī Khalīfa ascribes it to an earlier Qara Dāwūd.
- Mīr Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr · 949/1542غِيَاثُ الدِّينِ مَنْصُورُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Philosopher of Shiraz and head of the Manṣūriyya madrasa who carried on his father’s quarrel with al-Dawānī in a series of refutations, among them glosses against al-Dawānī’s writings on the Shamsiyya commentary and the Tahdhīb.
- Mīr Abū al-Fatḥ · 950/1543مِير أَبُو الفَتْحِحاشیہ نگار · شارحین — Persian scholar of the sixteenth century whose gloss on al-Dawānī’s commentary on the Tahdhīb, with his completion of it, became the standard advanced text on the Tahdhīb in the Ottoman madrasas, known there simply as ‘Mīr’.
- قل احمد · ca. 950/1543قُولْ أَحْمَدُ بْنُحاشیہ نگار — عثمانی عالم جن کا فناری کی شرح پر حاشیہ اس کے ساتھ اتنا جڑ گیا کہ دونوں ایک ساتھ پڑھے، چھاپے اور نام لیے جاتے تھے (“فناری اور قل احمد”)۔
- Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ramlī · 957/1550شِهَابُ الدِّينِ أَحْمَدُمنطق پر آرا · اساتذہ — Egyptian Shāfiʿī jurist, student of Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī, whose fatwā gave the standard summary of the three positions on studying logic.
- Taşköprüzâde · 968/1561عِصَامُ الدِّينِ أَبُومصنف · اساتذہ — Ottoman scholar and judge, author of the encyclopaedia of the sciences Miftāḥ al-saʿāda and the biographical dictionary al-Shaqāʾiq al-nuʿmāniyya, whose autobiography records the logic books an Ottoman student read.
- سروری · 969/1562مُصْلِحُ الدِّينِ مُصْطَفَىحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — کثیر التصانیف عثمانی عالم، صوفی اور شاعر، شہزادہ مصطفیٰ کے اتالیق، جنھوں نے ایساغوجی پر کاتی کی شرح پر ایک حاشیہ لکھا۔
- Ibn Nujaym · 970/1563زَيْنُ الدِّينِ بْنُمنطق پر آرا — Egyptian Ḥanafī jurist, author of al-Ashbāh wa-l-naẓāʾir, who counted logic, as part of philosophy, among the forbidden sciences, a view his own commentators rejected.
- Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī · 974/1567شِهَابُ الدِّينِ أَحْمَدُمنطق پر آرا — Egyptian-born Shāfiʿī jurist of Mecca whose fatwā declared the learning and teaching of logic a collective religious duty.
- Mullā ʿAbd Allāh Yazdī · 981/1573نَجْمُ الدِّينِ عَبْدُشارحین · اساتذہ — Safavid-era scholar whose commentary on al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb al-manṭiq, finished in Najaf in 967/1560, became the standard way into the book in Iran, Iraq and South Asia; The Mantiqi reads it at level 4.
- اخضری · 983/1575–76أَبُو زَيْدٍ عَبْدُناظمین · شارحین — الجزائر کے مالکی عالم اور شاعر جنھوں نے ایساغوجی کو رجز کی نظم السلم المنورق میں ڈھالا، جو شمالی افریقہ، مصر اور جنوب مشرقی ایشیا میں منطق کی سب سے زیادہ حفظ کی جانے والی ابتدائی کتاب ہے۔
- Fatḥ Allāh Shīrāzī · 997/1589مِيرْ فَتْحُ اللهِاساتذہ · حاشیہ نگار — Iranian polymath who came to Akbar’s court in 1583 and is credited with bringing the rational sciences, logic among them, into the madrasa course of Mughal India.
17 century
- Shaykh Bahāʾī · 1031/1622بَهَاءُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُاساتذہ — Leading scholar of Safavid Iran, Shaykh al-Islām under Shāh ʿAbbās I, mathematician and poet, who read Ibn Sīnā’s Qānūn with ʿAbd Allāh al-Yazdī and received an ijāza from him.
- Mīr Dāmād · 1041/1631مِير مُحَمَّد بَاقِرپیش رو · اساتذہ — Safavid philosopher of Isfahan, teacher of Mullā Ṣadrā, whose difficult al-Ufuq al-mubīn lies beneath some of the solutions of Sullam al-ʿulūm and much of Qāḍī Mubārak’s commentary, and was taught by the Khayrābādī scholars in India.
- نوارا کے توماسو اوبیچینی · 1632مترجمین · محققین — فرانسسکن مستشرق جنھوں نے ۱۶۲۵ء میں روم میں ایساغوجی کا عربی متن لاطینی ترجمے کے ساتھ چھاپا، جو اس کتاب کا پہلا مطبوعہ ایڈیشن ہے۔
- al-Busnawī · 1045/1635–36مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُوسَىشارحین · اساتذہ — Bosnian Ottoman scholar and judge, author of a commentary interwoven with the text (sharḥ mamzūj) on al-Kātibī’s Shamsiyya.
- al-Khabīṣī · 1050/1640عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُشارحین — Author of al-Tadhhīb, a mixed commentary of middle length on the logic of al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb that became the usual commentary on the book in Egypt and al-Azhar.
- Saʿīd Qaddūra · 1066/1656أَبُو عُثْمَانَ سَعِيدُشارحین · اساتذہ — Mālikī muftī of Algiers and administrator of the endowments of its Great Mosque, whose commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam was the first major Maghribī commentary after the author’s own and was printed in Cairo and Fez.
- Kâtip Çelebi · 1067/1657مُصْطَفَى بْنُ عَبْدِاساتذہ · منطق پر آرا — Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer whose Kashf al-ẓunūn is the main early catalogue of the commentaries on the logic textbooks, and who taught logic himself while lamenting the decline of the rational sciences.
- al-Siyālkūtī · 1067/1657عَبْدُ الحَكِيمِ بْنُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Mughal scholar of Sialkot, known as Malik al-ʿulamāʾ, whose glosses on the classic commentaries in logic, theology and rhetoric were read from India to Istanbul, above all his gloss on al-Jurjānī’s gloss on the Quṭbī.
- قلیوبی · 1069/1659شِهَابُ الدِّينِ أَحْمَدُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — الازہر کے شافعی فقیہ جنھوں نے بہت سی دوسری تصانیف کے ساتھ زکریا انصاری کی ایساغوجی کی شرح پر ایک حاشیہ لکھا۔
- Dominicus Germanus · 26 or 28 September 1670مترجمین — Franciscan Orientalist, pupil of Tommaso Obicini, whose Latin translation of al-Kātibī’s Shamsiyya, ‘Logica Solana’, survives in manuscript in the Escorial.
- Mīr Zāhid · 1101/1689–90القَاضِي مُحَمَّدُ زَاهِدُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Mughal scholar and official whose glosses on al-Dawānī’s commentary on the Tahdhīb (‘Mullā Jalāl’), on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s treatise on conception and assent, and on the commentary on the Mawāqif became core advanced books of the Indian Dars-i Niẓāmī.
- al-Yūsī · 1102/1691أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الحَسَنُشارحین · اساتذہ · منطق پر آرا — Moroccan Mālikī scholar, regarded as the greatest Maghribī scholar of the seventeenth century, who glossed al-Sanūsī’s logic and theology and answered al-Suyūṭī’s case against logic.
- Mullā Quṭb al-Dīn Sihālawī · 1103/1692قُطْبُ الدِّينِ بْنُاساتذہ — Scholar of the rational and transmitted sciences at Sihālī near Lucknow, the founder of the Farangī Maḥall family, teacher of Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī and father of Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn.
18 century
- Mullā Fīrūz · 1118/1707–1124مُلَّا فِيرُوز بْنشارحین — Author of al-Sirāj al-wahhāj, one of the earliest commentaries on Sullam al-ʿulūm, dedicated to the Mughal emperor Bahādur Shāh I.
- al-Bihārī · 1119/1707مُحِبُّ اللهِ بْنُمصنف — Mughal judge and scholar, author of Sullam al-ʿulūm, the most advanced logic textbook of the Indian madrasa course, and of Musallam al-thubūt in legal theory.
- Eyyûbîzâde Mustafa · 1119/1707مُصْطَفَى بْنُ يُوسُفَشارحین · اساتذہ — Bosnian Ḥanafī scholar and muftī of Mostar, author of ‘the new commentary’ on the Shamsiyya and of commentaries on the Īsāghūjī and the Tahdhīb.
- Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shamsābādī · 1121/1709قُطْبُ الدِّينِ الحُسَيْنِيُّاساتذہ — Indian teacher of the madrasa sciences, a student of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Sihālawī, with whom Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī read most of his books; he also taught Amān Allāh al-Banārasī and Qāḍī Mubārak.
- al-Wallālī · 1128/1716أَبُو العَبَّاسِ أَحْمَدُشارحین — Moroccan logician, a student of al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī, who wrote the first commentary on al-Sanūsī’s logic compendium after the author’s own and a commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam (Meknes 1119/1707).
- Ḥāfiẓ Amān Allāh al-Banārasī · 1133/1721أَمَانُ اللهِ بْنُاساتذہ · مصنف — Scholar of law, legal theory and theology who was ṣadr of Lucknow while Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī was its qāḍī; their debates, and his arbitration between Mīr Dāmād and Maḥmūd al-Jawnpūrī, belong to the background of the Sullam al-ʿulūm.
- ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī · 1143/1731عَبْدُ الغَنِيِّ بْنُمنطق پر آرا · ناظمین — Damascene Sufi, Ḥanafī jurist and poet, author of some three hundred works, who wrote a poem on logic with his own prose commentary and urged every would-be specialist to learn logic.
- Saçaklızâde · 1145/1732–33مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِيمصنف · منطق پر آرا · اساتذہ — Ottoman scholar of Maraş who criticised gloss-heavy madrasa teaching in his Tartīb al-ʿulūm and wrote the Waladiyya, the short handbook of disputation read after logic from Istanbul to Cairo and Kurdistan.
- al-Tahānawī · 1158/1745مُحَمَّد أَعْلَى بْنُمصنف — Indian Ḥanafī scholar, author of Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn wa-l-ʿulūm, the largest encyclopaedia of the technical terms of the madrasa sciences, which gives the standard definition, subject and rank of logic.
- Ḥamd Allāh · 1160/1747حَمْدُ اللهِ بْنُشارحین · اساتذہ — Shīʿī logician of Sandīla whose commentary on the assents of Sullam al-ʿulūm became a curriculum book and drew more glosses than any other commentary on the Sullam.
- Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn · 1161/1748نِظَامُ الدِّينِ بْنُاساتذہ · شارحین — Teacher of Farangī Maḥall in Lucknow after whom the Dars-i Niẓāmī is named, and the teacher of the first great generation of commentators on Sullam al-ʿulūm.
- Qāḍī Mubārak · 1162/1749القَاضِي مُبَارَكُ بْنُشارحین · حاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Indian logician whose commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm, begun as a student and finished in Delhi in 1143/1730, became the curriculum book known simply as ‘Qāḍī’ or ‘Qāḍī Mubārak’, with his own glosses (al-Minhuyāt).
- Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sihālawī · 1167/1754أَحْمَدُ عَبْدِ الحَقِّشارحین · اساتذہ — Grandson of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Sihālawī of Farangī Maḥall and author of Suddat al-ʿulūm (1136/1723–24), one of the earliest commentaries on Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī’s Sullam al-ʿulūm.
- داؤد قارصی · 1169/1756داوُدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍشارحین — قارص کے عثمانی منطقی جنھوں نے مصر میں پڑھایا اور فناری کی شرح کے متبادل کے طور پر ایساغوجی کی ایک شرح لکھی۔
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fatiḥpūrī · 1175/1761كَمَالُ الدِّينِ بْنُاساتذہ · شارحین — North Indian master of logic and philosophy, the leading pupil of Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn, who taught most of the great eighteenth-century commentators on Sullam al-ʿulūm and wrote a commentary on its difficult passages.
- al-Mallawī · 1181/1767أَبُو العَبَّاسِ شِهَابُشارحین · اساتذہ · منطق پر آرا — Shāfiʿī teacher at al-Azhar and specialist in logic who wrote a large and a small commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam; the small one became an Azhar staple and is the basis of al-Azhar’s logic textbook today.
- al-Damanhūrī · 1192/1778أَبُو العَبَّاسِ أَحْمَدُشارحین · اساتذہ · منطق پر آرا — Shaykh al-Azhar from 1182/1768, author of Īḍāḥ al-mubham min maʿānī al-Sullam, the best-known commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s logic poem, and of a commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s poem on rhetoric.
- İbrâhim Hakkı · 1194/1780إِبْرَاهِيمُ حَقِّي الأَرْضَرُومِيُّمنطق پر آرا — Ottoman Sufi scholar and poet, author of the encyclopaedic Mârifetnâme, whose rhymed Turkish study plan Tertîb-i ulûm (1165/1752) records the eighteenth-century order of the logic books.
- Mullā Ḥasan · 1199/1784مُحَمَّدُ حَسَنِ بْنُشارحین · حاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ · مصنف — Logician of the Farangī Maḥall family of Lucknow whose commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm became one of the three standard ways into the book and a set text of the Dars-i Niẓāmī.
- گلنبوی · 1205/1791إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُصْطَفَىشارحین · اساتذہ — اٹھارھویں صدی کے عثمانی منطقی اور ریاضی دان، جن کی ایساغوجی کی دقیق شرح اس روایت میں آخری بڑے اضافوں میں سے ایک تھی۔
- Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī · 1205/1791أَبُو الفَيْضِ مُحَمَّدمنطق پر آرا · مصنف — Indian-born lexicographer and hadith scholar of Cairo, author of the dictionary Tāj al-ʿarūs, who in his commentary on al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ judged logic disliked (makrūh) and lamented its hold on the scholars of Egypt.
- al-Ṣabbān · 1206/1792أَبُو العِرْفَانِ مُحَمَّدُحاشیہ نگار — Cairo scholar of grammar, rhetoric and the sciences whose gloss on al-Mallawī’s small commentary on the Sullam was printed at Būlāq in 1868 and became one of the standard companions of the poem in Egypt and Indonesia.
- al-Bannānī · 1211/1796أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِشارحین — Moroccan scholar of Fez, author of the most widely used Maghribi commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam, lithographed repeatedly in Fez and still read in Mauritania; who exactly he was is not settled.
19 century
- عبد الواجد خیرآبادی؛ TDV میں عبد الواجد کرمانی · 1216/1802عَبْدُ الوَاجِدِ الخَيْرَآبَادِيّاساتذہ — فضلِ امام کے استاد، جن کے ذریعے سندیلہ، گوپامؤ اور فرنگی محل کی منطق خیرآبادی مکتب تک پہنچی۔
- مغنیساوی یا مغنیسی · 1222/1807–8مَحْمُودُ بْنُ حَسَنٍشارحین — عثمانی عالم جن کی مفصل شرح مغنی الطلاب (“وہ جو طلبہ کے لیے کافی ہو”) ایساغوجی کی ایک کثیر الاستعمال تدریسی شرح بن گئی۔
- Baḥr al-ʿUlūm · 1225/1810عَبْدُ العَلِيِّ بْنُشارحین · حاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Son of Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn of Farangī Maḥall and one of the leading teachers of eighteenth-century India, author of a commentary on the Sullam al-ʿulūm with his own glosses (Minhuyāt) and of Fawātiḥ al-raḥamūt on al-Bihārī’s Musallam al-thubūt.
- Mullā Mubīn · 1225/1810مُبِينُ بْنُ مُحِبِّشارحین · حاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Ḥanafī scholar of the Farangī Maḥall family, pupil of Mullā Ḥasan, whose Mirʾāt al-shurūḥ is the fullest and clearest commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm.
- al-Dasūqī · 1230/1815أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Mālikī jurist and theologian who taught at al-Azhar; his gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya is printed in the Cairo collection Shurūḥ al-Shamsiyya.
- Dildār ʿAlī · 1235/1820السَّيِّدُ دِلْدَار عَلِيّحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Leading Shīʿī scholar of Lucknow, of the Uṣūlī school, who read Ḥamd Allāh’s commentary on the Sullam al-ʿulūm in Sandīla, wrote a gloss on it, and taught a line of Shīʿī commentators on the book.
- فضلِ امام خیرآبادی · 1243/1828فَضْلِ إِمَام بْنمصنف · اساتذہ — مرقات کے مصنف، منطق کی وہ مختصر عربی درسی کتاب جو آج بھی جنوبی ایشیا کے مدارس میں دوسرے یا تیسرے سال میں پڑھی جاتی ہے، اور علومِ عقلیہ کے خیرآبادی مکتب کے بانی۔
- حسن عطار، شیخ الازہر · 1250/1834حَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — مصری عالم اور شیخ الازہر، جن کا زکریا انصاری کی ایساغوجی کی شرح پر حاشیہ اٹھارھویں صدی کے بعد اس روایت میں مصر کی خدمات میں سے ایک ہے۔
- Ghadīja bint al-ʿĀqil · 12th/18th centuryخَدِيجَةُ بِنْتُ العَاقِلِشارحین · اساتذہ — Mauritanian woman scholar and teacher whose marginal commentary (ṭurra) on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam is still glossed and studied in Mauritania.
- al-Quwaysinī · 1254/1838بُرْهَانُ الدِّينِ حَسَنُشارحین · اساتذہ — Blind Shāfiʿī scholar of al-Azhar and its Shaykh from 1250/1834, author of a mixed commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam that is still read in Egypt and the Indonesian pesantren.
- Ḥāfiẓ Darāz · 1263/1847مُحَمَّد أَحْسَن بْنحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Pashtun scholar of Peshawar whose gloss on Qāḍī Mubārak’s commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm was printed in Delhi and Quetta.
- al-Bājūrī · 1276/1860إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Shaykh al-Azhar from 1847, whose much-printed gloss on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam made the poem’s Azhar reading the standard one from Egypt to Indonesia.
- Muḥanḍ Bāba · 1277/1860مُحَنْض بَابَه بْنشارحین — Mauritanian scholar of the Daymān whose short marginal commentary (ṭurra) on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam became a teaching text of the maḥaẓra, itself copied and glossed.
- فضلِ حق خیرآبادی · 1278/1861فَضْلِ حَقّ بْناساتذہ · شارحین — مرقات کے مصنف کے بیٹے اور شاگرد، خیرآبادی مکتب کے سب سے مشہور عالم؛ بعد کے شارحین مرقات کے ایک اقتباس کو ان سے مخاطب نصیحت سمجھتے ہیں۔
- Turāb ʿAlī al-Laknawī · 1281/1864أَبُو البَرَكَاتِ رُكْنُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Lucknow logician of the nineteenth century, a student of Muftī Ẓuhūr Allāh of Farangī Maḥall, who wrote glosses on all three standard commentaries on Sullam al-ʿulūm and trained several later commentators.
- Sabzawārī · 1289/1872هَادِي بْنُ مَهْدِيمصنف · اساتذہ — Persian philosopher of the school of Mullā Ṣadrā whose versified Manẓūma with his own Arabic commentary remains a basic textbook of philosophy, and of logic in verse, in the Iranian seminaries.
- ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Laknawī · 1304/1886أَبُو الحَسَنَاتِ مُحَمَّدٌمصنف · حاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Scholar of the Farangī Maḥall family of Lucknow, famous above all for ḥadīth and Ḥanafī law, who also wrote on logic: a treatise on the Sullam’s puzzle of the ‘absolutely unknown’, a commentary on al-Bihārī’s treatise on fallacies and glosses on the commentaries on the Tahdhīb.
- Shihāb al-Dīn Marjānī · 28 April 1889شِهَابُ الدِّينِ هَارُونُشارحین · اساتذہ — Tatar scholar, historian and reformer of Kazan who taught logic in his madrasa and wrote a commentary on the introduction of the Shamsiyya.
- Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān · 1307/1890أَبُو الطَّيِّب مُحَمَّدمنطق پر آرا · مصنف — Indian scholar of the Ahl-i Ḥadīth and consort of the ruler of Bhopal, whose encyclopaedia Abjad al-ʿulūm records the classical definition of logic while defending Ibn Taymiyya’s arguments against the logicians.
- Aloys · 19 December 1893مترجمین · محققین · جدید تحقیق — Austrian-born orientalist who made the first printed translation of the Shamsiyya (English, Calcutta 1854) and supervised the first edition of al-Tahānawī’s Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn (Calcutta 1862).
- Cevdet Paşa · 26 May 1895أَحْمَد جَوْدَت پَاشَامصنف — Ottoman scholar, historian and statesman, head of the commission that drafted the Mecelle, whose Miʿyār-ı sedād (1877) was the first Turkish logic book in the traditional manner and is counted the best of the Turkish textbooks based on the Īsāghūjī.
- al-Anbābī · 1313/1896شَمْسُ الدِّينِ مُحَمَّدُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ · منطق پر آرا — Azhar scholar and twice Shaykh al-Azhar whose taqrīr on al-Bājūrī’s gloss on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam is a textbook example of a fourth layer of commentary, and whose fatwa of 1888 set conditions for teaching logic and other rational sciences at al-Azhar.
- عبد الحق خیرآبادی؛ شمس العلماء · 1316/1899مُحَمَّد عَبْدُ الحَقِّشارحین · اساتذہ — مصنف کے پوتے اور شرح مرقات کے مصنف، جو مرقات کی پہلی مکمل عربی شرح ہے؛ انیسویں صدی کے اواخر کے سب سے بڑے خیرآبادی منطقی۔
20 century
- ادرنہ کے مفتی محمد فوزی آفندی · 1318/1900مُحَمَّدُ فَوْزِي الأَدْرَنِيّحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — عثمانی دور کے آخر کے کثیر التصانیف عالم اور مدرس، طویل عرصے تک ادرنہ کے مفتی، جنھوں نے مغنیساوی کی ایساغوجی کی شرح مغنی الطلاب پر حاشیہ سیف الغلاب لکھا۔
- Muḥammad ʿAbduh · 1323/1905مُحَمَّدُ عَبْدُهمنطق پر آرا · محققین — Egyptian reformer and muftī who criticised the rote teaching of al-Azhar, drafted its reform law of 1314/1896, and edited al-Sāwī’s logic book al-Baṣāʾir al-Naṣīriyya with notes.
- al-Shirbīnī · 1326/1908عَبْدُ الرَّحْمٰنِ بْنُحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — Egyptian Shāfiʿī scholar and, for two years, Shaykh al-Azhar, whose notes (taqrīr) on al-Siyālkūtī’s gloss form the top layer of the printed commentaries on the Shamsiyya.
- Shiblī · 1914شِبْلِي نُعْمَانِيمنطق پر آرا — Indian scholar, historian and educationist, the main architect of the Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ curriculum, who argued that logic was only an aid and took too large a place in the madrasa course.
- Kiai Maḥfūẓ al-Tarmasī · 1338/1920مُحَمَّدُ مَحْفُوظُ بْنُاساتذہ · منطق پر آرا — Javanese ḥadīth scholar and Shāfiʿī jurist who taught for decades in Mecca; his record of the books he studied lists no logic, which Fanani and Widigdo take as evidence that logic was not a standard pesantren subject.
- Barakat Allāh · 1343/1925مُحَمَّدٌ بَرَكَةُ اللهِحاشیہ نگار · شارحین — Scholar of the Farangī Maḥall family whose Iṣʿād al-fuhūm, printed with the text of the Sullam al-ʿulūm, is the edition most used in South Asian madrasas today and the base text of Asad Q. Ahmed’s English translation.
- Muḥammad Ḥabīb Allāh al-Shinqīṭī · 1363/1944مُحَمَّدُ حَبِيبُ اللهِشارحین · اساتذہ — Mauritanian scholar of hadith who taught in Morocco, the Hijaz and at al-Azhar, and wrote al-Sabk al-badīʿ al-muḥkam, a commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam.
- Said Nursi · 23 March 1960بَدِيعُ الزَّمَانِ سَعِيدشارحین — Kurdish-born Ottoman and Turkish religious scholar, author of the Risale-i Nur, who in his early years wrote Qızıl Ījāz, a very compressed Arabic commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam with its own family of glosses.
- al-Muẓaffar · 1383/1964مُحَمَّدُ رِضَا بْنُمصنف · اساتذہ — Reforming Shīʿī scholar of Najaf whose lectures became al-Manṭiq, the clear modern handbook that is now the first logic book of the Shīʿī ḥawza.
- Ibrāhīm Balyāwī · 1387/1967مُحَمَّد إِبْرَاهِيم البَلْيَاوِيّشارحین · اساتذہ — Teacher of the rational sciences at the Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband whose commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm, Ḍiyāʾ al-nujūm, is still used in South Asian madrasas.
- ایڈون ای کالورلی · 1971مترجمین · جدید تحقیق — امریکی مشنری اور ماہرِ عربی جنھوں نے ایساغوجی کا پہلا انگریزی ترجمہ (۱۹۳۳ء) شائع کیا۔
- Kiai Bisri Mustofa of Rembang · 17 February 1977بِشْرِيّ مُصْطَفَى الرَّمْبَانِيُّمترجمین · اساتذہ — Javanese kiai and prolific author, head of the pesantren Raudlatut Thalibin in Rembang, who made the Javanese verse translation of al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam used in the pesantren.
- al-Fādānī · 21 July 1990أَبُو الفَيْضِ عَلَمُاساتذہ — Meccan hadith scholar and teacher of a West Sumatran family, known as ‘musnid of the age’, whose record of his chains of transmission lists an unusually full training in logic.
21 century
- علامہ عبد الحکیم شرف قادری · 1428/2007مُحَمَّد عَبْدُ الحَكِيمِحاشیہ نگار · اساتذہ — لاہور کے جامعہ نظامیہ رضویہ کے پاکستانی استاد اور المرضاۃ کے مصنف، جو مرقات پر مدارس کے طلبہ کے لیے لکھا گیا ایک عربی حاشیہ ہے۔
- Muftī Saʿīd Aḥmad Pālanpūrī · 19 May 2020سَعِيد أَحْمَد پَالَنْپُورِيشارحین · اساتذہ — Senior teacher and later Shaykh al-Ḥadīth and principal of the Dār al-ʿUlūm Deoband, whose lessons on Sullam al-ʿulūm were published as the Urdu commentary Irshād al-fuhūm (1433/2012).
- Nicholas Rescher · 2024جدید تحقیق — American philosopher and logician who, in the 1960s and 70s, reconstructed the temporal and modal logic of the Shamsiyya from Sprenger’s English translation.
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- Asad Q. Ahmedجدید تحقیق · مترجمین — Historian of Islamic thought at the University of California, Berkeley, whose Palimpsests of Themselves (2022) gives the first full English translation of Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī’s Sullam al-ʿulūm and the main study of its Indian commentaries.
- برہان الدین بلغاریبُرْهَانُ الدِّينِ بْنُحاشیہ نگار — الفوائد (یا الفرائد) البرہانیہ کے مصنف، فناری کی شرح پر ایک حاشیہ جسے TDV، قل احمد کے حاشیے کے ساتھ، اس کے اہم حواشی میں شمار کرتا ہے۔
- al-Kharpūtīعَبْدُ الحَمِيدِ الحَمْدِيُّحاشیہ نگار — Ottoman scholar of the nineteenth century who wrote ‘the new gloss’ on al-Siyālkūtī’s gloss on the part on conceptions of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya.
- Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Jawnpūrī · youngمُحَمَّدُ عَلِيٍّ الحُسَيْنِيُّشارحین — Bengal-born logician who wrote Miʿrāj al-fuhūm, one of the earliest commentaries on Sullam al-ʿulūm, at the age of eighteen, and died young.
- Kiai Sahal Mahfudhشارحین — Indonesian Nahdlatul Ulama scholar, later Rais Aam of the NU, who as a student at the pesantren of Sarang wrote two Arabic works on the Sullam: al-Murannaq and Izālat al-muttaham on al-Damanhūrī’s Īḍāḥ al-mubham.
- حسین ساری اوغلومحققین · مترجمین · جدید تحقیق — اسلامی فلسفے کے ترک مورخ جنھوں نے ایساغوجی کا پہلا تنقیدی ایڈیشن، ترکی ترجمے اور مطالعے کے ساتھ، تیار کیا (۱۹۹۸ء؛ نظرِ ثانی شدہ ۲۰۱۶ء)۔
- Tony Streetمحققین · مترجمین · جدید تحقیق — Historian of Arabic logic at the University of Cambridge, editor and translator of al-Kātibī’s Shamsiyya for the Library of Arabic Literature (2024).