Realism Transformed: The Ontology of Universals in Avicennan Philosophy and Qutb al-Din al-Rāzī’s Theory of Mental Exemplars [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2020 The onto-epistemological status of mental representations can be seen among the most controversial problems of Post-Avicennan philosophy. The problem has its roots in Ibn Sīnā’s attempt to get a predicational unity between the layers of being on one hand
İbrahim Halil Üçer
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The Problem of Existential Import in Metathetic Propositions: Qutb al-Din al-Tahtani contra Fakhr al-Din al-Razi [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2019 This paper addresses discussions in post-Avicennan Arabic logic on various characterizations of metathetic propositions and their status vis-à-vis the existential import condition by focusing on the arguments made by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.
Yusuf Daşdemir
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Was Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani a Sunni or a Shi‘i?: An Examination of Bio-bibliographical Sources [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2019 Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī (d. 766/1365) was one of a triumvirate of scholars allegedly associated with Shīʿism – the other two being al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī (d. 726/1325) and Badr al-Dīn al-Tustarī (d. 732/1332) – who played an important role in shaping
Michael A. Rapoport
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A New Take on Semantics, Syntax, and the Copula: Note on Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani’s Analysis of Atomic Propositions in the Lawami‘ al-asrar [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2019 In logic, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Razī was broadly an orthodox Avicennan. However, in his enormously infuential commentary on al-Urmawī’s logic handbook Maṭāliʿ al-anwār, he explicitly criticizes Avicenna and advances a novel analysis of atomic propositions. As a
Dustin D. Klinger
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Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 [PDF]
, 2021 Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres – ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and ...
Krstić, Tijana, Terzioğlu, Derin
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Avicenna's Corporeal Form and Proof of Prime Matter in Twelfth-Century Critical Philosophy: Abū l-Barakāt, al-Masʿūdī and al-Rāzī [PDF]
, 2014 This article explores a previously unknown twelfth-century debate surrounding Avicenna’s theory of matter, in particular his views that, being deprived of actuality, prime matter is non-corporeal, and that body is invested with corporeity by a ...
Shihadeh, Ayman
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Al-Allāma al-illī (d. 1325) and the Early Reception of Kātibī's Shamsīya: Notes towards a Study of the Dynamics of Post-Avicennan Logical Commentary [PDF]
, 2016 $\textit{Al-Risāla al-Shamsīya fī l-qawāʿid al-manṭiqīya}$ by Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī (d. 1277) is one of the most widely-read textbooks on logic ever written. Its first readers, however, were less enthusiastic about it than later generations proved to be.
Street, T
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Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia [PDF]
, 2022 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
Ahmed, Asad Q
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Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy [PDF]
, 2019 Avicenna’s Neoplatonic account of divine providence and theodicy was hugely influential on later philosophical and religious thought in the Islamic world.
Shihadeh, Ayman
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Traditions, transmissions, translations: An Overview on the Commentaries of Ibn Sīnā’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ preserved in India [PDF]
, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of the manuscripts that preserve the commentaries on the most important Peripatetic summa of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980–1037), i.e.
Panzeca, Ivana
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