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Commentary on Īsāghūjī by al-ʿAllāma Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥamza al-Fanāri

Edited by Aaron Specack, Marwan Tayyan, and Justin Poe

In this comprehensive study, Aaron Spevack delves into the 15th-century logic text by Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 1431), a foundational work in the Ottoman seminary tradition. Rather than offering a standard annotated translation alone, Spevack also provides an in-depth analysis of each chapter, enriched with references to multiple super-commentaries and practical examples. Drawing from years of study under scholars trained in the Ottoman tradition along with personal research, he highlights the text’s significance in the Islamic logic tradition and its philosophical depth. More than just a guide to logical reasoning, al-Fanari’s work embeds a number of philosophical and metaphysical inquiries that set the Islamic intellectual tradition apart from its modern counterparts. This work offers both a practical and philosophical framework, showing why a deep understanding of classical logic is vital for contemporary discourse.

 

Hamza Karamali is a traditionally trained Muslim theologian and founder of Basira Education, where he develops educational solutions for schools and seminaries by applying traditional Islamic logic and theology to modern science and philosophy. He is the author of The Madrasa Curriculum in Context (Kalam Research & Media, 2017), Why Islam is True (Basira Education, 2022), and Kalam 3.0: The Muslim Manual of Logical Arguments to Show the Truth of Islam in the 21st Century (Basira Education, 2024).

Aaron Spevack teaches at Harvard University and is a researcher and chaplain at Brandeis University. He specializes in Islamic Intellectual History and has published a number of articles and two books, including The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of al-Bajuri (SUNY, 2014.)

Nazif Muhtaroğlu is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. He has co-edited two volumes in the Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue series (Springer, Vols. 4 & 7, 2010 and 2014). His broader work focuses on fostering scholarly dialogue between Islamic and Western intellectual traditions.

Commentary on Īsāghūjī by al-ʿAllāma Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥamza al-Fanāri

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    April 2025

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