Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia

Asad Q. Ahmed

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2022

Palimpsests of Themselves

Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia

Asad Q. Ahmed

Volume 5 in the series Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520975767

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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.

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Ahmed Asad Q. :

Asad Q. Ahmed is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I.A Study of the Ladder and Its Commentarial Tradition
1 The Ladder of the Sciences and Its Commentaries Open Access Download PDF	11
2 The Ladder of the Sciences Contents and Orientations Open Access Download PDF	50
Part II. A Theory of Commentaries
3 Anatomy of the Commentary An Internal View Open Access Download PDF	91
4 Anatomy of the Commentary A View from Above Open Access Download PDF	107
Part III. Translation and Study
5 A Translation and Study of the Sullam Open Access Download PDF	143
Notes Open Access Download PDF	197
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	309
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	321
INDEX Open Access Download PDF	333

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 370

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Published: July 19, 2022
ISBN: 9780520975767