Asad Q Ahmed

Biographic Data

ID7230315
NAMEAsad Q Ahmed
GIVEN NAMESAsad Q
FAMILY NAMEAhmed
SIGNATUREAHMED A Q
AFFILIATIONSNES, University of California, Berkeley [email protected]
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
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  • Underdetermination in Late Postclassical Ḥanafī Legal Theories

    Asad Q AhmedARTICLEOriens2018

    This article argues that Ḥanafī uṣūlīs of the later phases of the postclassical period understood uṣūl to be universal propositions that were underdetermined with respect to their evidentiary bases. Though the purpose of such propositions was to confer actionable certainty to particular legal effects, the later tradition imagined the main charge of uṣūl al-fiqh on a meta-theoretic level, i.e., to determine how such propositions could themselves b…

  • Rationalist Disciplines and Postclassical Islamic Legal Theories

    Asad Q Ahmed, Robert GleaveARTICLEOriens2018

  • The Reception of Avicenna's Theory of Motion in the Twelfth Century

    Asad Q AhmedARTICLEArabic Sciences and Philosophy2016

    This article explores the reception of Avicenna's theories of motion in the sixth/twelfth century. Avicenna had devised innovative ways of understanding motion in response to various challenges and conditions that the preceding philosophical tradition and his own internal critique had posed. Motion for him was either the state of being between two termini or the traversal of an interval, where the former of these was the extramentally real type a…

  • Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts

    Adam Silverstein, Asad Q Ahmed et al.BOOKIslamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts2014

    "This volume brings together articles on various aspects of the intellectual and social histories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written by leading scholars who span three generations and who cover such diverse fields as Late Antique Studies, Islamic Studies, Classics, and Jewish Studies, the volume is a testament to the breadth and to the sustained, deep impact of the…

  • Rationalist Disciplines in Post-Classical (ca. 1200–1900CE) Islam

    Jon Mcginnis, Asad Q AhmedARTICLEOriens2014

  • Post-Classical Philosophical Commentaries/Glosses

    Asad Q AhmedARTICLEOriens2013

    This article investigates the nature of the post-classical (ca. 600–1300/1200–900) commentary/gloss genre in the maʿqūlāt (rationalist disciplines). It does so by looking closely at the process of philosophical growth in the tradition of a celebrated text on logic, the Sullam al-ʿulūm of Muḥibballāh al-Bihārī (d. 1118/1707), that inspired more than ninety commentaries, glosses, and notes in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu in the course of two centuries…

  • The Ḥāshiya and Islamic Intellectual History

    Asad Q Ahmed, Margaret LarkinARTICLEOriens2013

  • The Shifā' in India I

    Asad Q AhmedARTICLEOriens2012

    This brief article has two aims: (1) to present a description and comprehensive enumeration of the manuscripts of Avicenna's Shifā' that had an affiliation with India; and (2) to draw some conclusions about the legacy of this text in India on the basis of the evidence of the manuscripts. The first task is accomplished in section I and the second in section II. In summary, the evidence suggests that it was mainly the Logic and Physics sections of …

  • The Islamic Scholarly Tradition

    M A Cook, Asad Q Ahmed et al.BOOKThe Islamic scholarly tradition2011

    The volume contains highly original articles on Islamic history, law, and thought, each either proposing new hypotheses or readjusting existing ones. The contributions range from studies in the formulation of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar to notes on the blood-money group in Islamic law, and to transformations in Arabic logic in the post-Avicennan period. Prepared by former students of Michael A. Cook, to whom this volume is dedicated, these s…