Alfarabi's book of dialectic (Kitāb al-jadal) : on the starting point of Islamic philosophy /

Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic (Kitab al-Jadal) Widely regarded as the founder of the Islamic philosophical tradition, and as the single greatest philosophical authority after Aristotle by his successors in the medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian communities, Alfarabi was a leading figure in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fārābī (Author)
Other Authors:	DiPasquale, David M., 1968- (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from Arabic.
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Fārābī. > Jadal. Dialectic > Early works to 1800. Logic > Early works to 1800. Islamic philosophy > Early works to 1800. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.

Table of Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Alfarabi's Kitāb al-Jadal: Complete English Translation; 2. Dialectic and Political Science; 3. Dialectic and the Principles of all Science; 4. Dialectic and the Method of Natural and Divine Science; 5. Dialectic and Education; 6. Conclusion: Alfarabi and the Taxonomy of the Medieval Arabic Organon; Glossary A: English-Arabic; Glossary B: Arabic-English; References; Index.