Logic, Soul, and World - Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies Hardcover

About the Book

This volume brings together articles on Arabic logic and philosophy, written by some of the leading scholars of the field. The highly original contributions engage various figures, periods, geographical areas, and topics.

Book Synopsis

The highly original contributions in this volume engage various figures, periods, geographical areas, and topics related to Arabic philosphy and logic. Most of the chapters in this collection are directly related to logic. Some of them are on issues related to the existence of the immaterial human soul, its acquisition of knowledge, and its interaction with the external world in general. A third group of articles deals with some metaphysical issues regarding the world, independently of how it is perceived by the human mind. Many of the articles included in this collection offer solutions to longstanding queries of the discipline or open up entirely new directions for future investigations.

About the Author

Asad Q. Ahmed is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. His works include The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011) and Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (UC Press, 2022).

Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester. His works include Medieval Finitism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Riccardo Strobino is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Tufts University. His works include Avicenna's Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology (UC Press, 2021).