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Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians
CONTENTS – Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians
- Introduction
- IbnTaymiyya’s Opponents and his Refutation of the Logicians xi
- Sources of the Critique
- lbn Taymiyya ‘s Discourse
- JV. The Arabic Texts liii
- V. Notes on the Translation lvii
- Jahd al-Qarīḥa fi Tajrid al-Nasiha 1
- Concerning the Logicians’ Doctrine that no Concept can be Formed Except by Means of Definition 6
- Concerning the Logicians’ Doctr ine that Definition Leads to
- the Conception of Things 12
- Concerning the Logicians’ Doctrine that no Judgement may
- be Known Except by Means of Syllogism 30
- Concerning the Logicians’ Doctrine that Syllogism or Demonstration Leads to the Certain Knowledge of Judgements 111
Introduction
IN 709/1309, Taqi al-Din lbn Taymiyya spent eight months in a Mamhik prison io Alexaadria.1 There he apparently received some visitors whose identity we do not know but who had strong leanings towards philoso phy. 2 Though his interest up till that time lay in confuting the metaphysical doctrines of the philosophers, he there made up his mind to write a refutation of logic, which he thought to be the ultimate source of the erroneous metaphysical doctrines espoused by the philosophe rs.3 His critique culminated in a substantial tome, al-Radd ‘a/ii al -Manfiqiyyln , one of the most devastating attacks ever levelled against the logic upheld by the early Greeks, the later commentators, and their Muslim followers.
The richly documented biographical and bio-bibliographical accounts of lbn Taymiyya by contemporary and later biographers and historians enable us to understand both his declared and latent
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