- The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
- Contributors
- Introduction
- The Theology Attributed to Aristotle: Sources, Structure, Influence
- The Rise of Falsafa: Al-Kindī (d. 873), On First Philosophy
- Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. 925), <i>The Spiritual Medicine</i>
- Ibn Masarra’s (d. 931) Third Book
- Al-Fārābī’s (d. 950) On the One and Oneness: Some Preliminary Remarks on Its Structure, Contents, and Theological Implications
- Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī’s (d. 974) <i>Kitāb Tahdhīb al-akhlāq</i>
- Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037): Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ
- Reconciling Religion and Philosophy: Nāṣir-i Khusraw’s (d. 1088) <i>Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn</i>
- Al-Ghazālī’s (d. 1111) <i>Incoherence of the Philosophers</i>
- Ismāʿīlite Critique of Ibn Sīnā: Al-Shahrastānī’s (d. 1153) Wrestling Match with the Philosophers
- Ibn Ṭufayl’s (d. 1185) <i>Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓan</i>
- Suhrawardī’s (d. 1191) Intimations of the Tablet and the Throne: The Relationship of Illuminationism and the Peripatetic Philosophy
- Averroes (d. 1198), <i>The Decisive Treatise</i>
- Al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Commentary on Avicenna’s Pointers: The Confluence of Exegesis and Aporetics
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274): Sharḥ al-Ishārāt
- Kātibī (d. 1277), Taḥtānī (d. 1365), and the <i>Shamsiyya</i>
- <i>Al-Mawāqif fī ʿilm al-kalām</i> by ʿAḍūd al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 1355), and Its Commentaries
- Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsāʾī (d. after 1491) and his <i>Kitāb Mujlī Mirʾāt al-munjī</i>
- Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 908/1502), Glosses on ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qūshjī’s Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s <i>Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād</i>
- Mīr Dāmād’s (d. 1631) al-Qabasāt: The Problem of the Eternity of the Cosmos
- Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s (d. 1635) <i>Divine Witnesses</i>
- The <i>Sullam al-ʿulūm</i> of (d. 1707) Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī
- Aḥmad al-Mallawī (d. 1767): Commentary on the Versification of the Immediate Implications of Hypothetical Propositions
- Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī’s (d. 1861), <i>al-Hadiyya al-saʿīdiyya</i>
- Haji Mullā Hādī Sabzawārī (d. 1878), <i>Ghurar al-farāʾid</i>
- Ali Sedad Bey’s (d. 1900), <i>Kavâidu’t-Taḥavvülât fî Ḥarekâti’z-Zerrât</i> (<i>Principles of Transformation in the Motion of Particles</i>)
- Muḥammad Iqbāl (d. 1938): The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (d. 1979) on the Logical Foundations of Induction
- ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī (d. 1981), <i>Nihāyat al-ḥikma</i>
- Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd (d. 1993), <i>Naḥwa Falsafa ʿIlmiyya</i> (<i>Toward a Scientific Philosophy</i>)
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Terms
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter argues that the Sullam al-ʿulūm of Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī is a milestone textbook in Arabo-Islamic logic, both in it larger pedagogical aims and insofar as it posits conceptualizations as significantly foundational for logical operations. This orientation toward conceptualizations seems to have opened up new possible directions in the field of logic on several fronts. The chapter has three sections. The author and the general nature of his project are introduced in the first section. The structure of the work and its relation to two leading commentaries are discussed in the second section. And a brief assessment of the work’s contributions to the field of Arabo-Islamic logic is presented in the last section on the basis of a few examples.
Keywords: Sullam al-ʿulūm, logic, Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī, Muslim India, ʿaqliyyāt, commentaries, glosses, Qāḍī Mubārak Gūpāmawī, Mullā Ḥasan Sihālawī, postclassical Arabo-Islamic philosophy
Asad Q. Ahmed is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of California, Berkeley. His works include The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Ḥijāz and Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
- Contributors
- Introduction
- The Theology Attributed to Aristotle: Sources, Structure, Influence
- The Rise of Falsafa: Al-Kindī (d. 873), On First Philosophy
- Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d. 925), <i>The Spiritual Medicine</i>
- Ibn Masarra’s (d. 931) Third Book
- Al-Fārābī’s (d. 950) On the One and Oneness: Some Preliminary Remarks on Its Structure, Contents, and Theological Implications
- Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī’s (d. 974) <i>Kitāb Tahdhīb al-akhlāq</i>
- Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037): Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ
- Reconciling Religion and Philosophy: Nāṣir-i Khusraw’s (d. 1088) <i>Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn</i>
- Al-Ghazālī’s (d. 1111) <i>Incoherence of the Philosophers</i>
- Ismāʿīlite Critique of Ibn Sīnā: Al-Shahrastānī’s (d. 1153) Wrestling Match with the Philosophers
- Ibn Ṭufayl’s (d. 1185) <i>Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓan</i>
- Suhrawardī’s (d. 1191) Intimations of the Tablet and the Throne: The Relationship of Illuminationism and the Peripatetic Philosophy
- Averroes (d. 1198), <i>The Decisive Treatise</i>
- Al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Commentary on Avicenna’s Pointers: The Confluence of Exegesis and Aporetics
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274): Sharḥ al-Ishārāt
- Kātibī (d. 1277), Taḥtānī (d. 1365), and the <i>Shamsiyya</i>
- <i>Al-Mawāqif fī ʿilm al-kalām</i> by ʿAḍūd al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 1355), and Its Commentaries
- Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsāʾī (d. after 1491) and his <i>Kitāb Mujlī Mirʾāt al-munjī</i>
- Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 908/1502), Glosses on ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Qūshjī’s Commentary on Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s <i>Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād</i>
- Mīr Dāmād’s (d. 1631) al-Qabasāt: The Problem of the Eternity of the Cosmos
- Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s (d. 1635) <i>Divine Witnesses</i>
- The <i>Sullam al-ʿulūm</i> of (d. 1707) Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī
- Aḥmad al-Mallawī (d. 1767): Commentary on the Versification of the Immediate Implications of Hypothetical Propositions
- Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī’s (d. 1861), <i>al-Hadiyya al-saʿīdiyya</i>
- Haji Mullā Hādī Sabzawārī (d. 1878), <i>Ghurar al-farāʾid</i>
- Ali Sedad Bey’s (d. 1900), <i>Kavâidu’t-Taḥavvülât fî Ḥarekâti’z-Zerrât</i> (<i>Principles of Transformation in the Motion of Particles</i>)
- Muḥammad Iqbāl (d. 1938): The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (d. 1979) on the Logical Foundations of Induction
- ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī (d. 1981), <i>Nihāyat al-ḥikma</i>
- Zakī Najīb Maḥmūd (d. 1993), <i>Naḥwa Falsafa ʿIlmiyya</i> (<i>Toward a Scientific Philosophy</i>)
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Terms
