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This paper tries to outline a history of development of informal logic in Semitic languages and especially in Arabic. It tries to explain how the first definite formulation of rules of this logic appeared at āl-Šāfi‘y’s Risāla, a work on ’uswl āl-fiqh or methodology of law. It attempts also to provide new theories and hypotheses about the translation movement in the Arabic and Islamic medieval world.

The Genesis of Arabic Logical Activities: From Syriac Rhetoric and Jewish Hermeneutics to āl-Šāfi‘y’s Logical Techniques

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This paper tries to outline a history of development of informal logic in Semitic languages and especially in Arabic. It tries to explain how the first...

The Genesis of Arabic Logical Activities: From Syriac Rhetoric and Jewish Hermeneutics to āl-Šāfi‘y’s Logical Techniques

Published Online: Aug 22, 2017

Page range: 65 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0012

Keywords
logic, history of logic, legal hermenutics, analogy a fortiori, rhetorics, argumentation, rationality, argumentum a minore ad maius, argumentum a majori ad minus, argumentum of a similitude, methodology of islamic law

© 2017 Hany Azazy, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Genesis of Arabic Logical Activities: From Syriac Rhetoric and Jewish Hermeneutics to āl-Šāfi‘y’s Logical Techniques

Published Online: Aug 22, 2017

Page range: 65 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0012

Keywordslogic, history of logic, legal hermenutics, analogy a fortiori, rhetorics, argumentation, rationality, argumentum a minore ad maius, argumentum a majori ad minus, argumentum of a similitude, methodology of islamic law

© 2017 Hany Azazy, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
logic, history of logic, legal hermenutics, analogy a fortiori, rhetorics, argumentation, rationality, argumentum a minore ad maius, argumentum a majori ad minus, argumentum of a similitude, methodology of islamic law