#Taha_Abderrahmane doctorat de 3e cycle from #Sorbonne on logical and semantic analyses of #being #contemporaryArabThought 1/
The ToC #Taha_Abderrahmane 2/
The appendix includes a translation of the famous debate between #alSirafi and #MattaIbnYunus also he did an article much later in #Arabica on that #Taha_Abderrahmane 3/
The second text in the appendix is from #alMuqabasat of #alTawhidi and the third from #KitabalHuruf of #Farabi paras 80-103 4/
Like earlier works on the copula and ontology by #Hintikka #Shehadi #Kahn etc there is an engagement with the #SapirWhorff thesis on the linguistic limitations of metaphysics #Taha_Abderrahmane 5/
Drawing on #Frege #Russell people (like #FazlurRahman) talked about the ‘systematic ambiguity’ of being from Greek into Arabic (#Hintikka himself famously dissented) - the origins of the debate on #tashkik_al_wujud that I discussed in my book on #MullaSadra 6/
#FadlouShehadi (d. 2012) who had been a professor at Rutgers published a book in 1972 Metaphysics in Islamic Philosophy which extensively discussed this with respect especially to #KitabalHuruf of #Farabi but also #MullaSadra books.google.co.uk/books/about/Me… 7/
For anyone interested in the wider traditions of ‘be’ in a range of languages there was a project back in the 70s involving #Hintikka and others published by #Kluwer philosophy which is still well worth reading 8/
More recently there is this interesting book by #AndreaMoro published by @mitpress mitpress.mit.edu/books/brief-hi… 9/
While this work is very different from #Taha_Abderrahmane recent ouvrage there are hints of the same project of a critique of ‘modernism’ both of the Arabic reception of #GreekMetaphysics in #Abbasid Baghdad and #Badawi reception of existentialism in 20th C 10/
The conclusion of #Taha_Abderrahmane is fascinating because he also cites the failures of those who try to read #Bergson into the classical #Arabic philosophical tradition (like #Iqbal one assumes) or personalism (like #Lahbabi) 11/
The basic question is precisely - whither an ‘authentic’ Arab/Islamic philosophical tradition towards critically engaging with the heritage and forging a new way into the future #Taha_Abderrahmane 12/
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