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

Livre 5 sur 6: Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

Ahmed, Asad Q.

 
9780520344655: Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520344650 ISBN 13 : 9780520344655
Editeur : University of California Press, 2022

Synopsis

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.<br /><br />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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520344650
ISBN 13 
9780520344655
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
370
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Personne responsable
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