Islamic disputation theory : the uses & rules of argument in medieval Islam.

Islamic disputation theory : the uses & rules of argument in medieval Islam.

This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalām) and jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. The author...

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Main Author: Miller, Larry Benjamin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Series:Logic, argumentation & reasoning ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Islam > Theology > History.
Islam > Doctrines > History.
Religious disputations.
Law.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600.
Law > General.
Literary Criticism > Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy > History & Surveys > Medieval.
Islam > Doctrines
Islam > Theology
Religious disputations
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Theological Dialectic (Jadal)
  • Jadal, Speculation, and Truth
  • Question and Answer (The Four Questions)
  • Muʿāraḍa
  • The Signs of Defeat
  • The Rules of Jadal (Adab al-Jadal)
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Dialectic and Arabic Philosophy
  • What Is Dialectic?
  • Dialectical Questions - Form and Content
  • The Rules of Debate
  • The Participants in the Debate
  • Jadal in Theology and Philosophy: An Overview
  • Chapter 4: Dialectic (Jadal) in Jurisprudence
  • The Early Period
  • Question and Answer (The Four Questions)
  • Questions One and Two
  • Question Three: What Is Your Evidence?
  • Question Four: The Mode of Signification
  • Question Five: Objection
  • Muṭālaba (Request)
  • Iʽtirāḍ (Objection)
  • Muʽāraḍa (Counter-Objection)
  • Mumāna'a, Manʽ
  • Fasād al-waḍʽ (False Construction)
  • ʽAdam al-taʼthīr (Ineffective Ratio Legis)
  • Qalb or Ishtirāk fī al-dalāla (methodos kata peritropēn)
  • Naqḍ or munāqaḍa (Inconsistency)
  • al-Qaul bi-mūjib al-ʽilla (Limited Acceptance)
  • Farq (Distinction)
  • Muʽāraḍa (Counter-Objection)
  • The Order of the Objections
  • The Signs of Defeat
  • The Adab al-Jadal
  • The "Middle" Period of Juristic Dialectics
  • al-'Amīdī's Irshād
  • al-Barawī's Muqtaraḥ fī l-Muṣṭalaḥ
  • Three Other Texts
  • The Final Period of Juristic Dialectics
  • The Muqaddima of al-Nasafī
  • Chapter 5: The Ādāb Al-Baḥth
  • al-Qusṭās
  • The Introduction
  • Section One: Definitions
  • Propositions
  • The Second Section
  • "Beginnings"
  • "Means"
  • "Ends"
  • al-Risāla
  • On Definitions
  • The Questions/Problems (masā'il)
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • A. Manuscripts
  • B. Books
  • C. Articles
  • D. Other Sources Consulted in Revision
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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