Title Palimpsests of themselves : logic and commentary in postclassical Muslim South Asia / Asad Q. Ahmed

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 5 Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship ; 5. 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr, -1707 or 1708. Sullam al-ʻulūm. SUBJECT Sullam al-ʻulūm (Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr) fast Subject Logic -- Early works to 1800 Islamic philosophy -- South Asia Intellectual life -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Religion / Islam. History / Middle East. Social Science / Islamic Studies. HISTORY / Middle East / General Intellectual life -- Religious aspects -- Islam Islamic philosophy Logic South Asia Genre/Form Early works Form Electronic book Author Container of (expression): Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr, -1707 or 1708. Sullam al-ʻulūm English. LC no. 2021049353 ISBN 9780520975767 0520975766

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