Arsyad al-Banjari s Insights on Parallel Reasoning and Dialectic in Law

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia. The work focuses on Arsyad al-Banjari's dialectical use and understanding of qiys or correlational inference as a model of parallel reasoning or analogy in Islamic jurisprudence. This constituted the most prominent instrument he applied in his effort of integrating Islamic law into the Banjarese society.This work studies how Arsyad al-Banjari integrates jadal theory or dialectic in Islamic jurisprudence, within his application of qiys. The author develops a framework for qiys which acts as the interface between jadal, dialogical logic, and Per Martin-Löf's Constructive Type Theory (CTT). One of the epistemological results emerging from the present study is that the different forms of qiys applied by Arsyad al-Banjari represent an innovativeand sophisticated form of reasoning. The volume is divided into three parts that discuss the types of qiys as well their dialectical and argumentative aspects, historical background and context of Banjar, and demonstrates how the theory of qiys comes quite close to the contemporary model of parallel reasoning for sciences and mathematics developed by Paul Bartha (2010). This volume will be of interest to historians and philosophers in general, and logicians and historians of philosophy in particular.

First international study on the work of Arsyad al Banjari Including bilingual translations of relevant texts from the Banjaresse Crucial insights into the development of Islamic argumentation theory and thought in the 18th century Southeast Asia Innovative approach to parallel reasoning with bearings to contemporary legal reasoning and also philosophy of science Foreword written by Walter Edward Young

Auteur
Muhammad Iqbal: Lecturer and researcher at Universitas Islam Negeri Antasari Banjarmasin Indonesia. His interests are logic and epistemology in Islamic tradition.

Contenu

1. A General View of Qiys: A Dialectical Reading.- 2. Dialectical System of Qiys Al-illa.- 3. Dialectical System of Qiys Al-Dalla and Qiys Al-Shabah.- 4. Arsyad Al-Banjari: A Banjarese Shfi' Scholar.- 5. Systems of Qiys in Arsyad Al-Banjari's Works.- 6. Arsyad Al-Banjari's Qiys for Integrating Banjarese Traditions into Islamic Law.- 7. Qiys and Contemporary Models of Parallel Reasoning.