Palimpsests of themselves : logic and commentary in postclassical Muslim South Asia / Asad Q. Ahmed.
"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. I...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ;
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520975766 9780520975767 0520344650 9780520344655 |