Ahmed, Asad Q.,  <br/><br/>
Palimpsests of Themselves :  Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia / 
Asad Q. Ahmed. 
 - Berkeley, CA :   University of California Press,   [2022]  ©2022 
 - 1 online resource (370 p.) 
 - Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship ;  5 .
<br/><br/> Frontmatter --   Contents --   Acknowledgments --   Introduction --   Part I.A Study of the Ladder and Its Commentarial Tradition --   1 The Ladder of the Sciences and Its Commentaries --   2 The Ladder of the Sciences --   Part II. A Theory of Commentaries --   3 Anatomy of the Commentary --   4 Anatomy of the Commentary --   Part III. Translation and Study --   5 A Translation and Study of the Sullam --   Notes --   Glossary --   Bibliography --   INDEX 
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<br/><br/> A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam's intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world. 
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><br/>This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:  
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520975767 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Islam.<br/>Islamic philosophy--South Asia.<br/>Logic--Early works to 1800.<br/>HISTORY / Middle East / General.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BC66.A7 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>160