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Aristotelian Logic and the Arabic Language in Alfārābī, by Shuk-Ri B. Abed. (SUNY Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religion. A publication of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.) xxv + 201 pages, notes, appendices, bibliography, index (including glossary). State University of New York Press, Albany1991. $49.50/$16.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Nicholas Heer
Nicholas Heer*
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University of Washington
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , December 1991 , pp. 237 - 239
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1991

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References

1 A detailed account of the debate is given by Abū Ḥayyān al-Ṭawḥīdī in his Kitāb al-imtā‘ wa’l-mu’ānasa. See the edition of Amīn, Aḥmad and al-Zayn, Aḥmad (Beirut n.d.) vol. 1, pp. 107–129Google Scholar. Abū Ḥayyan’s account may also be found in Yāqūt al-Rūmī’s Mu‘jam al-adaba’ in the biography of Abū Sa‘īd Sīrāfī. See the edition of Margoliouth, D. S. (Cairo 1355/1936) vol. 8, pp. 190–229.Google Scholar An English translation of Abū Ḥayyan’s account, based on the version found in Yāqūt, was published by Margoliouth in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1905) 79–129.

2 Both works have been edited by Muhsin Mahdi. The first was published by Dar al-Mashriq in Beirut in 1970, the second by the same publisher in 1968.