Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". lviii, 204pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Faint dust-spotting to text block. Slight warp to rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest and most prolific thinkers of medieval Islam, held Greek logic responsible for the "heretical" metaphysical conclusions reached by Islamic philosophers, theologians, mystics, and others. Unlike Ghazali, who rejected philosophical metaphysics but embraced logic, Ibn Taymiyya considered the two inextricably connected. He therefore set out to refute philosophical logic, a task which culminated in one of the most devastating attacks ever levelled against the logical system upheld by the early Greeks, the later commentators, and their Muslim followers. His argument is grounded in an empirical approach that in many respects prefigures the philosophies of the British empiricists. Hallaq's translation, with a substantial introduction and extensive notes, makes available to a wider audience for the first time an important work that will be of interest to specialists in ancient and medieval philosophy and to historians of logic and empiricist philosophy, as well as to scholars of Islam and Middle Eastern thought.(Publisher). Very good. Item #16570
ISBN: 0198240430
Price: $115.00