Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians

Lest the reader is misled, it should be pointed out that this is not a translation of `Allama Taqi al-Din ibn Taymiyya's most famous critique of Aristotelian logic, popularly known as "al-Radd `ala al-Mantiqiyin" (formally, "Nasihat ahl al-Iman fi al-Radd `ala Mantiq al-Yunan"), which is said to have anticipated Mill's logic and Hume's philosophy.Instead, as the author informs us, the work translated is `Allama Suyuti's (d. 911/1505) abridgement (to about 32,000 words), some two centuries later, of al-Radd (some 138,000 words), entitled "Jahd al-Qariha fi Tajrid al-Nasiha" (the al-Nasiha being a reference to al-Radd). In abridging the work `Allama Suyuti has not re-phrased al-Radd; instead, he has merely deleted the philosophical parts (and eliminated repetitions), retaining the logical parts of the original work.