Mi‘yar al-‘Ilm fi Fann al-Mantiq of al-Ghazali is the first book written specifically on Muslim logic. But the comprehensive and exclusive study on the essence of its scientific contents of the book and its significance in developing scientific thinking has never been done. Thus this study investigates the objectives and referral sources of Mi‘yar writing....Read More

Using classical Greek logic to explain the concept of a metaphor to his readers, the famous Islamic scholar Ibn Sina wrote in his book, “Qiyâs”: “So and so is beautiful. Everything beautiful is a moon. Therefore so and so is a moon.” On the other hand, the equally famous Islamic scholar Imam al-Shafi’i is quoted...Read More

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...Read More

Four options for assigning a meaning to Islamic Logic are surveyed including a new proposal for an option named Real Islamic Logic (RIL). That approach to Islamic Logic should serve modern Islamic objectives in a way comparable to the functionality of Islamic Finance. The prospective role of RIL is analyzed from several perspectives: (i) parallel...Read More