Palimpsests of Themselves

Palimpsests 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 t...

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Главный автор: Ahmed, Asad Q.
Формат: Online
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: University of California Press 2022
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