Abu l-Barakat and the Traditions of Arabic Logic
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Authors
Street, Anthony
Journal Title
Studia graeco-arabica
ISSN
2281-2687
Publisher
Pisa University Press
Volume
11
Issue
2
Pages
41-66
Type
Article
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Street, A. (2021). Abu l-Barakat and the Traditions of Arabic Logic. Studia graeco-arabica, 11 (2), 41-66. https://doi.org/10.12871/978883339614913
Abstract
In the anonymous al-Nukat wa-l-fawāʾid, a summa of Avicennan philosophy written around 1200, a partisan of Avicenna accuses Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) of having come under the influence of the reprehensible Leader of the Jews, Abū l-Barakāt al-Baġdādī (d. c. 1165). The reasons for the anonymous author’s antipathy toward Abū l-Barakāt relate to the way Avicenna’s contribution to logic is both pillaged and pilloried in stretches of al-Kitāb al-muʿtabar. The claim that Abū l-Barakāt exercised direct influence over Faḫr al-Dīn is, at least in logic, unlikely to be true. Nonetheless, Abū l-Barakāt’s presentation and methods highlight significant changes in the methods of the later traditions of Arabic logic.
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Israel Institute of Advanced Studies
Embargo Lift Date
2100-01-01
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.12871/978883339614913
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331941
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