For some seven hundred years seminaries across the Islamic world have required that students to take a rigorous course of traditional logic. Instruction was based on a series of short textbooks, explicated through commentaries and glosses. This tradition of “school logicn arose &spite strong religious opposition to logic in the Islamic world. Its texts reflected the essentially oral quality of instruction in the seminaries. Given that the seminary training equipped students to explicate Islamic law, it is not surprising that the emphasis of the school logic was on semantics. The school logic was closely linked with philosophical logic, which differed from it in emphasis, and with the disciplines of the principles of jurisprudence and Arabic linguistics. Despite some influence from Western logic, the school logic is still taught as a basic part of the curriculum in Islamic seminaries in Egypt, Iran, and the Subcontinent.
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