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Palimpsests of Themselves - (Berkeley Postclassical Islamic Scholarship) by Asad Q Ahmed (Paperback)

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  • A free open access ebook is available upon publication.
  • About the Author: Asad Q. Ahmed is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • 370 Pages
  • Religion + Beliefs, Islam
  • Series Name: Berkeley Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

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"Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. It takes up the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, as a case study and engages its legacy in three ways. In addition to presenting the first full translation and extended commentary in English, Asad Q. Ahmed offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. The technical, social, and theoretical approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam's intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world"--



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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam's intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world.



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"Palimpsests of Themselves is a transformative work of historical scholarship. With empathy and rigor, Asad Q. Ahmed succeeds brilliantly in recreating the intricate logical theories and exegetical practices of South-Asian Muslim logicians and commentators, who up to now have been entirely neglected in Islamic Studies and in the history of philosophy."--Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University

"This is a fascinating text of early modern logic, beautifully presented. Perhaps more importantly, Asad Q. Ahmed has set the Sullam against the commentary tradition it engendered. His intricate analysis, working from a number of perspectives, brings to life the scholarly world for which the evolving reception of Bihārī's masterpiece was a crucial incitement to sustained philosophical creativity."--Tony Street, University of Cambridge

"Both the amount of hitherto unstudied material excavated by Ahmed and the care and sophistication with which he handles this material are remarkable and put scholarship on Indo-Muslim philosophy and logic on an entirely new footing. Particularly impressive are his identification of distinct scholarly lineages in various regional centers and his reflections on the cultural and pedagogical context of the widespread practice of writing commentaries, glosses, and super-commentaries."--Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History, Harvard University

"A stunning piece of work. The historical detective work on the commentaries and their interconnections is truly extraordinary, as is the marriage of philological and philosophical skills that went into the translation, edition, and commentary."--Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

"Asad Q. Ahmed provides not just an invaluable translation and study of a major text in the logical tradition but also puts forward a significant theory for reading texts and understanding commentary traditions in the post-classical period."--Sajjad H. Rizvi, Director, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter



About the Author



Asad Q. Ahmed is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 370
Series Title: Berkeley Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Islam
Publisher: University of California Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Asad Q Ahmed
Language: English
Street Date: July 19, 2022
TCIN: 90857182
UPC: 9780520344655
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-6654
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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