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The first original Arabic writings on logic were produced by al-Kindi (Alkindus) (805–873), who produced a summary on earlier logic up to his time. The first writings on logic with non-Aristotelian elements was produced by al-Farabi (Alfarabi) (873–950), who discussed the topics of future contingents, the number and relation of the categories, the relation between logic and grammar, and ...
Islamic philosophy refers to philosophy produced in an Islamic society. As it is not necessarily concerned with religious issues, nor exclusively produced by Muslims, [3] many scholars prefer the term "Arabic philosophy." [4] Islamic philosophy is a generic term that can be defined and used in different ways.
His book Philosophical Instructions: An Introduction to Contemporary Islamic Philosophy is translated into English. [106] Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr: Iraq 1935–1980 Shia He was an Iraqi Shia philosopher and founder of the Islamic Dawa Party. His Falsafatuna (Our Philosophy) is a collection of basic ideas concerning the world, and his way of ...
The book "Al-Nijat min al-Qarq fi Bahr al-Zalalaat" written in Arabic and includes a course of theoretical philosophy (logic, physics, mathematics and theology).According to some researchers, "Al-Nijat" is a selection from The Book of Healing.
Aristotelian logic justifies the second claim by basing it on another a priori principle; the claim that if a conjunction occurs either always or for the most part, then that conjunction is not a coincidence. By this, imperfect induction in Aristotelian logic, is a form of a deductive syllogism, and thus has justification
Because of territorial disputes with the Arabic grammarians, Islamic philosophers were very interested in working out the relationship between logic and language, and they devoted much discussion to the question of the subject matter and aims of logic in relation to reasoning and speech.
[1] [2] [3] Accounts of the debate are considered to be biased towards al-Sirafi, but the debate appeared to have gone in al-Sirafi's favour, who attacked the concept of logic as only applicable to the Greeks and not useful for Arabic speakers. [2] [3] Al-Sirafi also managed to confound Abu Bishr with a series of Arabic grammatical riddles. [3]
Al-Katibi's other major work, Philosophy of the Source, is a treatise about physics and metaphysics. [ 5 ] Under the title The Rules of Logic, a bilingual Arabic edition and English translation of this text was published in 2024 by the Library of Arabic Literature , edited and translated by Tony Street of the Faculty of Divinity at the ...