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Arsyad al-Banjari’s Insights on Parallel Reasoning and Dialectic in Law

The Development of Islamic Argumentation Theory in the 18th Century in Southeast Asia

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  • First international study on the work of Arsyad al Banjari Including bilingual translations of relevant texts from the Banjaresse
  • Crucial insights into the development of Islamic argumentation theory and thought in the 18th century Southeast Asia
  • Innovative approach to parallel reasoning with bearings to contemporary legal reasoning and also philosophy of science
  • Foreword written by Walter Edward Young

Part of the book series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning (LARI, volume 25)

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About this book

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia. The work focuses on Arsyad al-Banjari’s dialectical use and understanding of qiyās or correlational inference as a model of parallel reasoning or analogy in Islamic jurisprudence. This constituted the most prominent instrument he applied in his effort of integrating Islamic law into the Banjarese society.
This work studies how Arsyad al-Banjari integrates jadal theory or dialectic in Islamic jurisprudence, within his application of qiyās. The author develops a framework for qiyās which acts as the interface between jadal, dialogical logic, and Per Martin-Löf’s Constructive Type Theory (CTT). One of the epistemological results emerging from the present study is that the different forms of qiyās applied by Arsyad al-Banjari represent an innovativeand sophisticated form of reasoning. The volume is divided into three parts that discuss the types of qiyās as well their dialectical and argumentative aspects, historical background and context of Banjar, and demonstrates how the theory of qiyās comes quite close to the contemporary model of parallel reasoning for sciences and mathematics developed by Paul Bartha (2010). This volume will be of interest to historians and philosophers in general, and logicians and historians of philosophy in particular.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Universitas Islam Negeri Antasari, Banjarmasin, Indonesia

    Muhammad Iqbal

About the author

Muhammad Iqbal: Lecturer and researcher at Universitas Islam Negeri Antasari Banjarmasin Indonesia. His interests are logic and epistemology in Islamic tradition.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Arsyad al-Banjari’s Insights on Parallel Reasoning and Dialectic in Law

  • Book Subtitle: The Development of Islamic Argumentation Theory in the 18th Century in Southeast Asia

  • Authors: Muhammad Iqbal

  • Series Title: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91676-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91675-6Published: 17 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91678-7Published: 18 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91676-3Published: 16 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9120

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9139

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Law

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