RT Book
T1 Palimpsests of themselves: logic and commentary in postclassical Muslim South Asia
T2 The Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship
JF The Berkeley series in postclassical Islamic scholarship
A1 Ahmed, Asad Q. 1977-
A2 Ahmed, Asad Q. 1977-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783419199
AB 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.
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BC66.A7
SN 9780520344655
SN 9780520975767
K1 Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr : -1707 or 1708 : Sullam al-ʻulūm
K1 Logic : Early works to 1800
K1 Islamic Philosophy : South Asia
K1 Intellectual life : Religious aspects : Islam