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Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi

Logic[edit]

His work on logic, the al-Risāla al-Shamsiyya (Logic for Shams al-Dīn), was commonly used as the first major text on logic in madrasahs, right down until the twentieth century and is "perhaps the most studied logic textbook of all time".^[3] Al-Katibi's logic was largely inspired by the formal Avicennian systemoftemporal modal logic, but is more elaborate and departs from it in several ways. While Avicenna considered ten modalities and examined six of them, al-Katibi considers many more modalized propositions and examines thirteen which he considers 'customary to investigate'.^[4]

This important work was published in a bilingual Arabic and English version in May 2024 as The Rules of Logic, edited and translated by Tony Street, Assistant Director of Research in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Al-Katibi's other major work, Philosophy of the Source is a treatise about physics and metaphysics.^[5]

See also[edit]

• Logic in Islamic philosophy
• Avicennian logic

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Leaman, Oliver; Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (2013). History of Islamic Philosophy. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136780448.