Palimpsests of Themselves
Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
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Author(s)
Ahmed, Asad Q.
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He 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. These 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.
Keywords
Social Science; Islamic Studies; History; Middle East; Religion; IslamISBN
9780520975767Publisher
University of California PressPublisher website
www.ucpress.eduPublication date and place
2022Imprint
University of California PressClassification
Social groups: religious groups and communities
Middle Eastern history
Islam