Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī (d. 1248) was an Arabic logician working in thirteenth-century Cairo. Responding to the logical writings of both Avicenna and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, he produced highly innovative work that set the agenda for the subsequent logical tradition. In this study, the chapter on conversion from Khūnajī’s magnum opus, Kashf al-Asrār ʿan Ghawāmiḍ al-Afkār (The Disclosure of Secrets as to the Obscurities of Thoughts), is translated and provided with a commentary. The chapter serves to highlight, among other things, the way Khūnajī understood a proposition in the essentialist (ḥaqīqī) reading.
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A claim noted by Louise Marlow, “A thirteenth-century scholar in the eastern Mediterranean: Sirāj al-Dīn Urmavī, jurist, logician, diplomat,” Al-Masāq 22 (2010): 279–313, at 285ff.
El-Rouayheb, “Introduction” xxiv; cf. Joep Lameer, “Ghayr al-maʿlūm yamtaniʿ al-ḥukm ʿalayhi. An exploratory anthology of a false paradox in medieval Islamic philosophy,” Oriens, forthcoming, footnote 34.
Nicholas Rescher, “The theory of modal syllogistic in medieval Arabic philosophy,” in Studies in Modality, ed. N. Rescher et al. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974: 17–56.
Avicenna, Qiyās, 89–90. This is the passage El-Rouayheb suggests Khūnajī has in mind, and I can’t suggest an alternative. I worry, however, that it’s not obviously apposite.
Street, “Outline”, 141–142; cf. P. Thom “Logic and metaphysics in Avicenna’s modal syllogistic” in: S. Rahman, T. Street and H. Tahiri (eds.), The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008: 361–376; and El-Rouayheb “Introduction”, xliii–xliv.
Mentioned by Rāzī, Mulakhkhaṣ, 171–172; full argument, idem. Sharḥ al-Ishārāt. Ed. ʿA.R. Najafzādeh, Tehran: Anjuman Āthār wa-Mafākhir Ferhangi, 1384 solar: 187–188.
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Afḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajī (d. 1248) was an Arabic logician working in thirteenth-century Cairo. Responding to the logical writings of both Avicenna and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, he produced highly innovative work that set the agenda for the subsequent logical tradition. In this study, the chapter on conversion from Khūnajī’s magnum opus, Kashf al-Asrār ʿan Ghawāmiḍ al-Afkār (The Disclosure of Secrets as to the Obscurities of Thoughts), is translated and provided with a commentary. The chapter serves to highlight, among other things, the way Khūnajī understood a proposition in the essentialist (ḥaqīqī) reading.
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