ISBN:
9780520975767
,
0520975766
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship 5
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ahmed, Asad Q., 1977- Palimpsests of themselves
DDC:
160
Keywords:
Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr
;
Logic Early works to 1800
;
Islamic philosophy
;
Intellectual life Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Philosophie islamique - Asie méridionale
;
Vie intellectuelle - Aspect religieux - Islam
;
Religion / Islam
;
History / Middle East
;
Social Science / Islamic Studies
;
HISTORY / Middle East / General
;
Intellectual life - Religious aspects - Islam
;
Islamic philosophy
;
Logic
;
Early works
;
South Asia
Abstract:
"Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. It takes up the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, as a case study and engages its legacy in three ways. In addition to presenting the first full translation and extended commentary in English, Asad Q. Ahmed 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. The technical, social, and theoretical 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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- The ladder of the sciences and its commentaries -- The ladder of the sciences : contents and orientations -- Anatomy of the commentary : an internal view -- Anatomy of the commentary : a view from above -- A translation and study of the Sullam.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
