Risala -i Kubra: Treatise on Logic

Risala -i Kubra : New,
'The Greater Treatise on Logic'
[A5] Hardback - 199 pages,
by Shaykh Sayyid al-Jurjani [d.816h],
Transl & Notes by Zulfiqar H. al-Azhari.

Description : 

Risala-i Kubra (the greater treatise on logic) has for centuries served as a persian primer textbook on logic (ilm al-Mantiq). The text comprises 35 sections and covers a vast array of fundamental topics relating to logic. The text was authored with the purpose of introducing the discipline of logic to a novice student; hence, it remained among the very initial texts which students would study and memorise to begin their pursuit of scholarship on logic.   


Clear and precise English translation with Persian text. Translated by Zulfiqar H. Pirzada al-Azhari.
 

The First Ever English Translation of Risala-i Kubra - The Greater Treatise on Logic. A classical text of Dars-i Niẓami on traditional logic written by the Persian encyclopaedic scholar, ‘Ali ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjani (740-816 AH). 

Shaykh Ali al-Jurjani : 

The work ‘Nahw Mir’ is authored by al-Sayyid al-Sharif 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Jurjani [740 - 816 AH] who was born in the city of Jurjan on the 22nd of Sha'ban in the year 740AH.

He attained his religious education from the foremost authorities of his time, namely al-'Allama Mubarak Shah and al-'Allama Akmal al-D'n Muhammad b. Mahmud al-Bibarti. Under the guardianship of such reputable luminaries, he became known by two epithets; “al-Sayyid al-Sanad” and “Mir Sayyid”.

The Translator :

Shaykh Zulfiqar H. Pirzada al-Azhari is a qualified linguist and a renowned scholar of the Dars - i Nizami tradition, with over 15 years' experience in teaching the classical texts of the Dars - i Nizami curriculum.

He has a BA (Hons) in Islamic theology from the prestigious University of Al-Azhar, Egypt, and an MA in Applied Translation Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. He has also extensively studied the Advanced Dars-i Nizami curriculum at Jamiyya al-Qadiriyya, Pakistan.  



 

Table of Contents :

---Preface,
---Chain of Authorities (Sanad).

---Introduction to Conceptions and Assertions,

---[1]. Three Relations to Assertions,
---[2]. Types of Conceptions and Assertions,
---[3]. Intellectual Examination,
---[4]. Distinction between Human and Animals,
---[5]. Defining Speech and Evidential Argument,
---[6]. Indication and it's Types,
---[7]. Verbal Significational Indication and It's Types,
---[8]. Total Correspondence, Partial Inclusion and Necessary Implication,
---[9]. Indivisble and Composite,
---[10]. Real and Metaphor,
---[11]. Types of Words,
---[12]. Simple Expressions and Composite Expressions, 
---[13]. Types of Simple Expressions,
---[14]. Types of Composite Utterances, 
---[15]. Classifying Expressions into Conceptions and Assertions, 
---[16]. Particular and Universal,
---[17]. Five Universals,
---[18]. Relative Species,
-------18.1. Specific Property and General Accident, 
---[19]. Definitions and Descriptions,
---[20]. Metaphor's and Homonyms in Definitions,
---[21]. Differentiations between Universals,
---[22]. Inquiry on Propositions,
-------22.1. Types of Propositions,
---[23]. Technical Names for Parts of Propositions,
---[24]. Types of Attributive Propositions,
---[25]. Significant Propositions in Philosophical Sciences, 
---[26]. Methathetic and Determinate Propositions,
---[27]. Modal Propositions,
---[28]. Conversion of Quantified Propositions,
---[29]. Contradictory Propositions,
---[30]. Types of Conditional Propositions,
---[31]. Contradiction and Conversion of Conditional Propositions,
---[32]. Types of Evidential Arguments,
---[33]. Syllogism and its Types, 
---[34]. Connective Syllogism and its Types,
​​​​​​​---[35]. Conditions for Productive Moods of the First Figure,
-------35.1. Conditions for Productive Moods of the Second Figure,
-------35.2. Conditions for Productive Moods of the Third Figure,
-------35.3. Types of Exceptive Syllogism.

Appendix :
---A. Table for Premise Inferences of First Figure,
---B. Table for Premise Inferences of Second Figure,
---C. Table for Premise Inferences of Third Figure,
---D. A Glosary of Terms used in the Source Text.

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Dimensions : 21.7 x 15.4cm.