LEADER 02793nam 22005413a 450 001 9910583572803321 005 20230124202404.0 010 $a0-520-97576-6 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.127 035 $a(CKB)5860000000058614 035 $a(ScCtBLL)3e024968-cf06-4231-8a00-0ad98baa06e3 035 $a(DE-B1597)627802 035 $a(OCoLC)1338019725 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520975767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31594344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31594344 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000058614 100 $a20220603i20222022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPalimpsests of Themselves : $eLogic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia /$fAsad Q. Ahmed 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aBerkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship 311 $a0-520-34465-0 327 $aIntroduction -- The ladder of the sciences and its commentaries -- The ladder of the sciences : contents and orientations -- Anatomy of the commentary : an internal view -- Anatomy of the commentary : a view from above -- A translation and study of the Sullam. 330 $aPalimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam's intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world. 410 $aBerkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship 606 $aReligion / Islam$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Middle East$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science / Islamic Studies$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aReligion / Islam 615 7$aHistory / Middle East 615 7$aSocial Science / Islamic Studies 615 0$aSocial sciences 676 $a160 700 $aAhmed$b Asad Q$01251565 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583572803321 996 $aPalimpsests of Themselves$92901117 997 $aUNINA