Burhān al-dīn Nasafī as the Author of Al-Manṭiq al-kabīr (MS Aḥmad iii, no. 3401)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21451373 |
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| Authors | Asadollah Fallahi (0000-0002-1878-8866, Department of Logic, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 246-261 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Philosophy of Logic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5340 • E-ISSN: 1464-5149 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01445340.2022.2162320 |
| OpenAlex | W4319830329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Recently, in ‘An inquiry on Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī’s authorship of Al-manṭiq al-kabι ̄r (MS Aḥmad iii, no. 3401)’, we refuted the quite common view among historians of Arabic logic as to attribute Al-manṭiq al-kabι ̄r (Major [book on] logic) to Fakhr al-dīn Rāzī; however, in that paper, we could not identify the real author of the book. In this paper, we try to show that Al-manṭiq al-kabι ̄r was written by Burhān al-dīn Nasafī (1203–1288), who authored another book, Sharḥ Asās al-kiyāsa whose logical part is very similar to Al-manṭiq al-kabι ̄r in the following significant features: the titles of chapters and sections, the style of writing, some technical as well as some non-technical terms, many sentences word by word. None of these features we find in any other Arabic logical work. So, Al-manṭiq al-kabι ̄r and Sharḥ Asās al-kiyāsa are so close to each other that we might most possibly identify the authors of the books as the same scholar, i.e. Burhān al-dīn Nasafī. Fortunately, this has been verified recently by two manuscripts of a medieval Arabic logical book
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| Highly cited | No |
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