Arabic Tradition

SOME RECENT PEER REVIEWED PAPERS.

  1. 2025 “Dialogical Logic and Constructive Type Theory. New Explorations”. Rahman, S. & Gallois, L. In A. Klev (ed.), The Architecture and Archeology of Modern Logic. Cham: Springer, pp. 31-61.
  2. 2025. “The Dialogical Stance on Meaning”. Z. McConaughey & S. Rahman. In International Encylcopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Editon; Dordrecht: Elsevier, online. Reference Collection in Social Sciences.
  3. 2025 “On the Duration of the Necessary”.
  4. 2025 “Necessity the Logical Turn in Arabic Debate Theory” With Moussa Ndoye.
  5. 2025 “When Arguments have Accidents” L. Gazziero and S. Rahman. In preparation
  6. 2024 “Vindicating the Future. A Dialogical Stance on Belnap’s Tomorrow’s Sea Battle”. Z. McConaughey & S. Rahman In A. Klev (ed.), The Architecture and Archeology of Modern Logic. Cham: Springer, pp. 263-294.
  7. 2023. “Outside the Logic of Necessity”. Deontic Puzzles and “Breaking” Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic. S. Rahman & W. Young. Ad Argumenta-Brepols, pp. 153-183.
  8. 2022. "Ibn Ḥazm on Heteronomous Imperatives. A Landmark in the History of the Logical Analysis of Legal Norms ". S. Rahman, W. Young & F. Zidani. In P. McNamara, A. Jones, M. Brown (eds.) Agency, Norms, Inquiry and Artifacts: Essays in Honour of Risto Hilpinen : Dordrecht : Synthese Library-Springer, pp. 139-171.
  9. 2021. Arsyad al-Banjari’s Dialectical Model for Integrating Indonesian Traditional Uses into Islamic Law. Arguments.. M. Iqbal & S. Rahman. Argumentation, vol. 35, pp. 73-99.
  10. 2021. "On Descriptional Propositions in Ibn Sīnā: Elements for a Logical Analysis". S. Rahman & S. Zarepour. In. M. Mojtahedi (ed.), "Mathematics, Logic and their Philosophies", Cham: Springer, pp. 411-432.
  11. 2019. "Dialectic, The Dictum de Omni and Ecthesis". M. Crubellier, Z. McConaughey, M. Marion & S. Rahman. History and Philosophy of Logic., vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 207-233.
  12. 2018. "Unfolding parallel reasoning in islamic jurisprudence. Epistemic and Dialectical Meaning within Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī’s System of Co-Relational Inferences of the Occasioning Factor". S. Rahman. M. Iqbal. Cambridge Journal of Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol. 28, pp. 67-132.
  13. 2018. "Aristote et la question de la completude. Le modèle formel de Kurt Ebbinghaus". Philosophie Antique. Cl. Lion & S. Rahman, vol. 18, Philosophie Antique 18, 2018, p. 219-243.
  14. 2020. “Introducing Consistency in a Dialogical Framework for Paraconsistent Logic”. E. Barrio, N. Clerbout and S. Rahman. IGPL-OUP, volume 28, Issue 5, October 2020, pp. 953–97.
  15. 2014: “Ibn Sina’s Approach to equality and unity”. S. Rahman/ J. Granström / Z. Salloum. Cambridge Journal for Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol. 4(02), pp. 297-307.

SOME RELEVANT RECENT VOLUMES

  1. 2023. Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions. L. Cesalli, L. Gazziero, C. Manekin, S. Rahman, T.Street and M. Trizio (eds.) Turnhout : Brepols.
  2. 2022: Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language. S. Rahman & W. E. Young. Special Number of Methodos. Lille : STL-UMR8163-Spe, vol. 22. : Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language. S. Rahman & W. E. Young. Special Number of Methodos. Lille : STL-UMR8163-Spe, vol. 22. https://journals.openedition.org/methodos/8833
  3. 2021: New Developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic. From Ancient Law to Modern Legal Systems. S. Rahman, M. Armgardt, H. C. N. Kvernenes (Eds), Cham : Springer.
  4. 2021: Logic, Mathematics and their Philosophies. M. Mojtahedi./ S. Rahman/ M. S. Zarepour. Cham: Springer.
  5. 2019: Inferences by Parallel Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence. Al-Shīrāzī’s Insights into the Dialectical Constitution of Meaning and Knowledge. With Muhammad Iqbal and Youcef Soufi.
  6. Cham: Springer ( a version in Arabic has been published by al-Mukhatabat, Kerwan-Tunisia, Vol. 25 and 2018)
  7. 2018: Immanent Reasoning and the Dialogical Approach to Constructive Type Theory. A Plaidoyer for the Play level . S. Rahman, Ansten Klev, Zoe McConaughey & and N. Clerbout, Cham : Springer.

Preprints can be found in my Academia-homepage and/or HAL.

Relevant Books / Editions

 

The Dialectical Forge: Juridical Disputation and the Evolution of Islamic Law. Dordrecht; New York; Cham: Springer, 2017.

Digital Edition of the Kitāb ʿAyn al-Naẓar fī ʿIlm al-Jadal by Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d. 722/1322). TEI infrastructure and interface design by Frederik Elwert. Digital Humanities at the Center for Religious Studies (DH@CERES), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2019.

 

Relevant Articles, Chapters, Encyclopaedia Entries

 

“Four Moves to Rule Them All: Qiyās-dialectic Metatheories and the Ascendancy of Master-Category Objections in Post-Classical Islamicate Dialectics.” In Logic, Soul, and World: Studies in Honor of Tony Street, edited by Asad Q. Ahmed, Riccardo Strobino, and Mohammad Saleh Zarepour, 366-426. Leiden: Brill, 2025.

“The Insufficiency of Concomitance Alone: ‘Co-Presence and Co-Absence’ in the Mukhtaṣar of Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), with Commentary from the Sharḥ of al-Ījī (d. 756/1355) and the Ḥāshiya of al-Taftāzānī (d. 793/1390).” In Islamic Law in Context: A Primary Source Reader, eds. Omar Anchassi and Robert Gleave, 33-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

[with Shahid Rahman] “Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic.” In Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, (Ad Argumenta, Quaestio Special Issues 4), pp. 153-185. Edited by Laurent Cesalli, Leone Gazziero, Charles Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.

“Molla Fenârî and Pre-Imperial Ottoman Argumentation Theory.” In Osmanlı’da İlm-i Mantık ve Münazara, edited by Mehmet Özturan, Yusuf Daşdemir, and Furkan Kayacan, 493-550. Üsküdar, İstanbul: İSAR Yayınları, 2022.

“On the Logical Machinery of Post-Classical Dialectic: The Kitāb ʿAyn al-Naẓar of Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d. 722/1322).” Methodos 22 (2022). Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language. Eds. Shahid Rahman and Walter Young.

[with Shahid Rahman] “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language: Introduction.” Methodos 22 (2022). Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language. Eds. Shahid Rahman and Walter Young.

[with Shahid Rahman] “In Existence and in Nonexistence: Types, Tokens, and the Analysis of Dawarān as a Test for Causation.” Methodos 22 (2022). Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language. Eds. Shahid Rahman and Walter Young.

[with Shahid Rahman & Farid Zidani] “Ibn Ḥazm on Heteronomous Imperatives. A Landmark in the History of the Logical Analysis of Norms.” In Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen, edited by P. McNamara, A. Jones, and M. Brown, pp. 139-171. Cham, Switzerland: Springer (Synthese Library 454, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science), 2022.

“The Formal Evolution of Islamic Juridical Dialectic: A Brief Glimpse.” In New Developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic: From Ancient Law to Modern Legal Systems, pp. 83-102. Eds. Shahid Rahman, Matthias Armgardt, Hans Christian Nordtveit Kvernenes. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning 23. Dordrecht; New York; Cham: Springer, 2021.

[with Shahid Rahman & Farid Zidani] “It Ought to be Forbidden! Islamic Heteronomous Imperatives and the Dialectical Forge.” In Lógica, Conocimiento y Abducción. Homenaje a Ángel Nepomuceno, 97-114. Eds. Cristina Barés, Francisco J. Salguero, Fernando Soler. Cuadernos de Lógica, Epistemología y Lenguaje 15. London: College Publications, 2021.

“Concomitance to Causation: Arguing Dawarān in the Proto-Ādāb al-Baḥth,” in Peter Adamson, ed., Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World, pp. 205-281. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

“Al-Samarqandī’s Third Mas’ala: Juridical Dialectic Governed by the Ādāb al-Baḥth.” Oriens 46.1-2 (2018) [Special Issue: Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories]: 62-128.

“Mulāzama in Action in the Early Ādāb al-Baḥth.” Oriens 44.3-4 (2016) [Special Issue: Major Issues and Controversies of Arabic Logic]: 332-385.

“Dialectic in the Religious Sciences.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, eds. Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

“Uṣūl al-fiqh.” In Oxford Encyclopedias of the Islamic World: Digital Collection. Oxford University Press, 2013 [republished online 2022]

 

RevLog Postprints

 

“Gelenbevi’s Risālat al-Ādāb fī Ādāb al-Baḥth wa-l-Munāẓara: An annotated translation.” In Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī: The Life, Works, and Thought of an 18th Century Ottoman Polymath. Ed. Yasser Qureshy. Leiden: De Gruyter Brill [postprint].

“Uṣūlist Anticipations of the Conditional Perfection Problem: Abū l-Walīd al-Bājī’s Avoidance of Inverse Errors in the Iḥkām al-Fuṣūl fī Aḥkām al-Uṣūl.” In Proceedings of the 12th Annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop: “Language and Meaning in Islamic Legal Theory”, 3-4 July 2024. Birmingham: AMI Press [postprint].

 

RevLog Preprints

 

“Islamic Legal Theoretical and Dialectical Approaches to Fallacies of Correlation and Causation (7th-8th/13th-14th centuries).” In Islamic Legal Theory: Intellectual History and Uṣūl al-Fiqh. Eds. R. Gleave and M. Bedir. Leiden: De Gruyter Brill [preprint].

“Juristic Dialectic in the Genres of ʿIlm al-Jadal and ʿIlm al-Khilāf.” For Handbook for Islamic Legal Genres: Form, Function and Historical Development. Eds. Necmettin Kızılkaya and Hakkı Arslan. De Gruyter Brill [preprint]

“Mullā Ḥanafī on al-Ījī’s outline: An encounter with Later-Middle-Period Islamic Dialectics in annotated, parallel translation.” In A Handbook of Arabic Logic. Eds. Tony Street and Mohammad Saleh Zarepour. Springer. [preprint]

“Reasoning from Resemblance (Shabah) in al-Zarkashī’s al-Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ: An annotated, parallel translation.” RevLog Online Library. [preprint]

“On the Causes of Error (Asbāb al-Ghalaṭ) in al-Samarqandī’s al-Anwār al-Ilāhiyya: An annotated, parallel translation.” RevLog Online Library. [preprint]

 

RevLog Works in Progress

 

On the Protocols for Dialectical Inquiry (Ādāb al-Baḥth): A Critical Edition and Parallel Translation of the Sharḥ al-Risāla al-Samarqandiyya by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Kīlānī (fl. ca. 830/1427), Prefaced by a Critical Edition and Parallel Translation of its Grundtext: the Risāla fī Ādāb al-Baḥth by Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d.722/1322). [Dissemination Path: Publishing house (TBD)].

Al-Bājī’s Kitāb al-Minhāj fī Tartīb al-Ḥijāj: An annotated, parallel translation. [Dissemination Path: RevLog Online Library]