Arabic Tradition
Explore some of the Revlog publications from the Arabic team.
Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic
This study examines an Islamic dialectical objection called kasr, or ‘breaking’, as treated by the dialecticians and legal theorists Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī (d. 1083 CE) and Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī (d. 1081 CE).
“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].
“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]
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]
A select list of texts from RevLog’s editing, translating, and analysing agenda.
Arabic Tradition, Rational Sciences (ATRS)
Abharī (Athīr al-Dīn): Kashf al-Ḥaqāʾiq (Revealing Truths). Edited by Hüseyin Sarıoğlu, Istanbul: n.p., 1998.
and Ṭūsī]). Edited by M. Bīdārfar. Qum: Intishārāt Bīdār, 2011.
Averroes. Talkhīṣ al-Safsaṭah (Epitome of the Sophistical Refutations). Edited by M. Salīm Sālim. Cairo, Dār al-Kutub, 1973.
Avicenna: Al-Safsaṭa (Sophistry). Edited A. F. al-Ahwānī. Cairo: Nashr Wizārat al-Tarbiyya wa-l-Taʿlīm, 1958.
Avicenna: Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt (Book of Pointers and Reminders). Edited by J. Forget. Leiden: Brill, 1892.
Bahmanyār: Taḥṣīl: (Determination). Edited by Murtaḍā Muṭahharī. Tehrān: Dānešgāh-e Tehrān, 1997.
Dawānī (Jalāl al-Dīn), Ṣadr al-Dīn Dahstakī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Dashtaki, Shams al-Dīn al-Khafrī, and Kamāl al-Dīn Bukhārī, Davāzdah resale (Twelve Epistles; being a chrestomathy of epistles on the Liar).
Fārābī: Kitāb al-Amkina al-mughalliṭa (Book of Sophistical Places). Edited by Moḥammad Ṭaqī Dānishpazhūh. Qum: Maktabah al-Marʿashī al-Najafī, 1987. (Also edited by Rafīq al-ʿAğam. Beirut: Dār al-Mashriq, 1986.)
Ḥillī (Jamāl al-Dīn): Al-Asrār (Hidden Secrets). Qum: Markaz al-Abḥāth wa-l-Dirāsāt al-Islāmiyyah, Qism Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-Islāmī, 2000.
Ḥillī (Jamāl al-Dīn): Al-Qawāʿid (Clear Rules) commentary Shamsiyya. Edited by F. Ḥ. Tabrīziyān. Qum: Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 2010.
Ibn Kammūnah: Sharḥ al-Talwīḥāt al-Lawḥiyyah wa al-‘Arshiyyah (Vol. 1 Logic) (Commentary on Allusions). Edited by Najafqoli Habibi. Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2012.
Ibn Ṭumlūs: Kitāb fī l-manṭiq (Book on Logic). Edited by Fouad ben Ahmed. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Rāzī (Fakhr al-Dīn): “On answering the Sophists” in Nihāyat al-ʿuqūl (The Culminating Point for Intellects). Edited by A. L. Fouda. Beirut: Dār al-Dhakhāʾir, 2015.
Rāzī (Fakhr al-Dīn): Al-Mulakhkhaṣ (The Epitome of Logic and Philosophy). Edited by A. F. Qarāmalikī and A. Aṣgharīnizhād. Tehran: Dāneshgāh-e Ṣāde, 2002.
Rāzī (Fakhr al-Dīn): Sharḥ al-Ishārāt (Commentary on Pointers). Edited by ʿA.R. Najafzādeh. Tehran: Anjuman Āthār wa-Mafākhir Ferhangi, 2005.
Rāzī al-Taḥtānī (Quṭb al-Dīn): Muḥākamāt (Arbitration [Between Rāzī
Rāzī al-Taḥtānī (Quṭb al-Dīn):Taḥrīr (Redaction) contains text of Shamsiyya. Edited by M. Bīdārfar. Qum: Intishārāt Bīdār, 2011.
Samarqandī (Shams al-Dīn): Qisṭās al-afkār (Scale of Thoughts). Edited with notes by Asadallah Fallāḥī. Tehran: Muʾassasat Pizhuhishi Ḥikmat wa-Falsafah Īrān, 1399 hš (=2020).
Sāwī (ʿUmar ibn Sahlān): Baṣāʾir (Insights). Edited by Ḥasan al-Marāghī. Tehran: Muʾassasat al-Ṣādiq li-l-Ṭibāʿa wa-l-Nashr, 2011.
Shahrazūrī: Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Commentary on the Philosophy of Illumination). Edited by Hossein Ziai. Tehran: Institute for Cultural Studies and Research, 1993.
Shīrāzī (Quṭb al-Dīn): Sharh-i Hikmat al-Ishrâq (Commentary the Philosophy of Illumination). Edited by A. Nourani, and M. Mohaghegh. Tehran: Society for the Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, 2005.
Suhrawardī: Al-Lamaḥāt (Flashes). Edited by Najafqoli Habibi. Beirut and Baghdad: Manshūrāt al-Jamal, 2014.
Suhrawardī: Al-Mashāriʿ (Paths). Edited by Maghsoud Mohammadi and Ashraf Alipour. Tehran: Haqq-I Yavaran, 2006.
Suhrawardī: Al-Talwīḥāt (Allusions). Edited by Najafqoli Habibi. Tehran: Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2009.
Suhrawardī: Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Philosophy of Illumination). Edited by Henry Corbin. Tehran: Institut d’Etudes et des Recherches Culturelles, 1993.
Taftāzānī: Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya (Commentary on the Shamsiyya). Edited by Jādallāh Bassām Ṣāliḥ. Qum: Dār Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, 2012.
Ṭūsī (Naṣīr al-Dīn): Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt (Solution to Problems Raised Against Pointers). Edited by S. Dunyā. Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, 1971.
Arabic Tradition, Transmitted Sciences (ATTS)
al-Isfarāʾīnī al-Iskāf, Abū l-Qāsim (d. 452/1085): al-Kāfiya fī l-Jadal. [previously attributed to: al-Juwaynī, Imām al-Ḥaramayn (d. 478/1085)]
al-Bājī, Abū l-Walīd (d. 474/1081): Kitāb al-Minhāj fī Tartīb al-Ḥijāj.
al-Shīrāzī, Abū Isḥāq (d. 476/1083): al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī l-Jadal.
al-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid (d. 505/1111): al-Muntakhal fī l-Jadal.
al-ʿAmīdī al-Samarqandī, Rukn al-Dīn (d. 615/1218): al-Irshād fī ʿIlm al-Khilāf wa-l-Jadal.
al-Ṭūfī, Najm al-Dīn Sulaymān (d. 716/1316): ʿAlam al-Jadhal fī ʿIlm al-Jadal.
al-Samarqandī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad (d. 722/1322): Sharḥ al-Qisṭās [closing sections on ādāb al-baḥth].
al-Samarqandī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad (d. 722/1322): Sharḥ Fuṣūl al-Nasafī.
al-Kīlānī, Quṭb al-Dīn (fl. ca. 830/1427). Sharḥ al-Risāla al-Samarqandiyya.
al-Ḥanafī al-Tabrīzī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad (d. 900/1494), Sharḥ al-Mullā Ḥanafī̄ ʿalā l-Risāla al-ʿAḍudiyya fī Ādāb al-Baḥth wa-l-Munāẓara.
al-Jīlī al-Ṭālīshī, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Muṭṭahar (d. before 942/1535), Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ Masʿūd al-Rūmī̄. [previously attributed to: al-Dawānī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Asʿad (d. 908/1502)]