Logic in the Islamic World [addendum] For more on everything in the entry, see especially Hans Daiber's Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy (1999). Few scholars would now accept that Arabic logic is "entirely Western"; it grew out...

Logic in the Islamic World Arabic logic, like the rest of medieval Arabic science and philosophy, is entirely Western and has nothing to do with Oriental philosophy. It developed wholly in the wake of the classical Greek tradition as preserved in and...

Logic played an important role in early Islamic philosophy. Islamic law placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a novel approach to logic in Kalam, as seen in the method of qiyas. This approach, however, was later...