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dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Asad Q.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-26T05:31:01Z
dc.date.available2022-05-26T05:31:01Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54706
dc.description.abstractPalimpsests 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherSocial Science*
dc.subject.otherIslamic Studies*
dc.subject.otherHistory*
dc.subject.otherMiddle East*
dc.subject.otherReligion*
dc.subject.otherIslam*
dc.subject.otherTextbook*
dc.titlePalimpsests of Themselves
dc.title.alternativeLogic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.127
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780520975767
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintUniversity of California Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/3e024968-cf06-4231-8a00-0ad98baa06e3
oapen.identifier.isbn9780520975767


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