Logic, Soul, and World
Essays in Arabic Philosophy in Honor of Tony Street
Published on 3. July 2025
Book
Hardback
516 pages
978-90-04-72727-4 (ISBN)
Description
The highly original contributions in this volume engage various figures, periods, geographical areas, and topics related to Arabic philosphy and logic. Most of the chapters in this collection are directly related to logic. Some of them are on issues related to the existence of the immaterial human soul, its acquisition of knowledge, and its interaction with the external world in general. A third group of articles deals with some metaphysical issues regarding the world, independently of how it is perceived by the human mind. Many of the articles included in this collection offer solutions to longstanding queries of the discipline or open up entirely new directions for future investigations.
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Other
English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Laminated cover
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
894 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-72727-4 (9789004727274)
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Asad Q. Ahmed is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. His works include The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011) and Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (UC Press, 2022).
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester. His works include Medieval Finitism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Riccardo Strobino is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Tufts University. His works include Avicenna's Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology (UC Press, 2021).
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester. His works include Medieval Finitism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Riccardo Strobino is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Tufts University. His works include Avicenna's Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology (UC Press, 2021).
Content
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Asad Q. Ahmed, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour and Riccardo Strobino
Interview with Tony Street: A Retrospective
1 Al-Farabi on Future Contingency
?Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
2 'Subtraction' (raf?) as Method for Finding First Principles of Demonstrations and for Establishing or Destroying: From Aristotle to al-Farabi
?Cornelia Schoeck
3 On Avicenna's Theory of Conception and Assertion: Towards a Systematic Ambiguity Reading
?Zhenhyu Cai
4 Struggling with the Essentials: A Debate between Avicenna and His Contemporaries on Essentiality and Necessity in Demonstrations
?Silvia Di Vincenzo
5 Avicenna and as-Suhrawardi on the Flying Man: From the Flying Man to Existentialism
?Tianyi Zhang
6 Al-Katibi's Deduction of the Predicables
?Paul Thom
7 Harmonizing the Sages: Abravanel Reading Maimonides through Avicenna and Averroes
?Daniel Davies
8 As-Suhrawardi's Stance on Modalities and the Logic of Presence
?Shahid Rahman and Alioune Seck
9 The Logic of Divine Discourse: Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi's Application of Logic to Qur?anic Interpretation
?Tareq Moqbel
10 A Problem with the Wholly Hypothetical Syllogism: Some 13th-Century Arabic Discussions
?Khaled El-Rouayheb
11 A 12th Century Attack on Peripatetic Logic: Rashid ad-Din al-Wa?wa?'s (d. 1182) Treatise "A Doubt About reductio ad absurdum" and Its Aftermath
?Dustin Klinger
12 Four Moves to Rule Them All: Qiyas-Dialectic Metatheories and the Ascendancy of Master-Category Objections in Post-Classical Islamic Dialectics
?Walter Young
13 The Negative-Predicate Proposition in Later Arabic Logic
?Asad Q. Ahmed
14 Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of as-Sawi's Ba?a?ir
?Osama Eshera, Fateme Savadi and Robert Wisnovsky
Index
Introduction
?Asad Q. Ahmed, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour and Riccardo Strobino
Interview with Tony Street: A Retrospective
1 Al-Farabi on Future Contingency
?Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
2 'Subtraction' (raf?) as Method for Finding First Principles of Demonstrations and for Establishing or Destroying: From Aristotle to al-Farabi
?Cornelia Schoeck
3 On Avicenna's Theory of Conception and Assertion: Towards a Systematic Ambiguity Reading
?Zhenhyu Cai
4 Struggling with the Essentials: A Debate between Avicenna and His Contemporaries on Essentiality and Necessity in Demonstrations
?Silvia Di Vincenzo
5 Avicenna and as-Suhrawardi on the Flying Man: From the Flying Man to Existentialism
?Tianyi Zhang
6 Al-Katibi's Deduction of the Predicables
?Paul Thom
7 Harmonizing the Sages: Abravanel Reading Maimonides through Avicenna and Averroes
?Daniel Davies
8 As-Suhrawardi's Stance on Modalities and the Logic of Presence
?Shahid Rahman and Alioune Seck
9 The Logic of Divine Discourse: Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi's Application of Logic to Qur?anic Interpretation
?Tareq Moqbel
10 A Problem with the Wholly Hypothetical Syllogism: Some 13th-Century Arabic Discussions
?Khaled El-Rouayheb
11 A 12th Century Attack on Peripatetic Logic: Rashid ad-Din al-Wa?wa?'s (d. 1182) Treatise "A Doubt About reductio ad absurdum" and Its Aftermath
?Dustin Klinger
12 Four Moves to Rule Them All: Qiyas-Dialectic Metatheories and the Ascendancy of Master-Category Objections in Post-Classical Islamic Dialectics
?Walter Young
13 The Negative-Predicate Proposition in Later Arabic Logic
?Asad Q. Ahmed
14 Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of as-Sawi's Ba?a?ir
?Osama Eshera, Fateme Savadi and Robert Wisnovsky
Index