Overview
- Charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory over 400 years
- Studies the influence of Aristotle
- Uses the writings of Islamic theologians, jurists, and philosophers
Part of the book series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning (LARI, volume 21)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Shams al-Din al-Samarqandī and the ādāb al-baḥth
- Aristotle’s Topics in the Islamic tradition
- al-Fārābī, Avicenna
- Development of Islamic Jurisprudence
- Argumentation in Islamic law and theology
- Usul al-fiqh, kalām and falsafa
- Methods of argumentation in Medieval Islam
- The Scholastic Method in the Islamic world
- History of Logic in Islam
- Dialectic and Disputation in Islam
- theological dialectic
- Arab Philosophy
- Dialectic in Jurisprudence
- Islamic theologians
- evolution of Islamic dialectical theory
- methods of disputation
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This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalām) and jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. The author uses the theoretical writings of Islamic theologians, jurists, and philosophers to describe the concept
Overall, this investigation looks at the extent to which the development of Islamic modes of disputation is rooted in Aristotle and the classical tradition. The author reconstructs the contents of the earliest systematic treatment of the subject by b. al-Rīwandī. He then contrasts the theological understanding of dialectic with the teachings of the Arab Aristotelians–al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes. Next, the monograph shows how jurists took over the theological method of dialectic and applied it to problems peculiar to jurisprudence.
Although the earliest writingson dialectic are fairly free of direct Aristotelian influence, there are coincidences of themes and treatment. But after jurisprudence had assimilated the techniques of theological dialectic, its own theory became increasingly influenced by logical terminology and techniques. At the end of the thirteenth century there arose a new discipline, the ādāb al-baḥth. While the theoretical underpinnings of the new system are Aristotelian, the terminology and order of debate place it firmly in the Islamic tradition of disputation.
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Book Title: Islamic Disputation Theory
Book Subtitle: The Uses & Rules of Argument in Medieval Islam
Authors: Larry Benjamin Miller
Series Title: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45012-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45011-3Published: 14 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45014-4Published: 14 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45012-0Published: 13 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-9120
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9139
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 143
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Philosophy, Law, general, Classical Studies