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Palimpsests of Themselves - Asad Q. Ahmed

Palimpsests of Themselves

Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia

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Buch | Softcover
370 Seiten
2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34465-5 (ISBN)
CHF 49,90 inkl. MwSt
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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 of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He 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. These 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.

Asad Q. Ahmed is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship ; 5
Zusatzinfo 15 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 91 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-520-34465-0 / 0520344650
ISBN-13 978-0-520-34465-5 / 9780520344655
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