RevLogRedux to receive major ERC funding, 2025-2031
“Logic in Reverse Redux: Illegitimate Argumentative Moves in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Medieval Traditions” (RevLogRedux), a major, six-year project on fallacy theory in medieval traditions (CPI Leone Gazziero), will be funded under the ERC Synergy Grant program. Of particular relevance to the SSIDD is the Arabic pillar of the project, with its sub-pillars “Arabic Tradition, Rational Sciences” (PI Tony Street) and “Arabic Tradition, Transmitted Sciences” (PI Shahid Rahman). The ATRS team will explore direct fallacy theory in works of manṭiq, while the ATTS team will distill fallacy theory from the catalogues of objections and responses found in a select corpus of juristic jadal and ādāb al-baḥth texts and commentaries. Multiple editions, translations, papers, monographs, workshops, and conferences are planned; data from all teams across the Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek traditions will be fed to the Semantic Web pillar of RevLogRedux (PI Roberta Padlina), and integrated into the project’s SW-core digital humanities platform, AskSten, which, among many other things (like an open-access encyclopedia of illegitimate argumentative moves), will use that data in linked LLMs and knowledge graphs, empowering ML and MR to enhance AI. For broad overviews of RevLogRedux, please see the following sites:
https://stl.univ-lille.fr/recherche/contrats-et-projets-de-recherche/commission-europeenne
https://stl.univ-lille.fr/actualite/le-projet-revlogredux-finance-par-lerc
https://www.hauts-de-france.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/leone-gazziero-laureat-de-lerc-synergy-2024
Talks and Lectures
2025 talk by Silvia Di Vincenzo (Aix-Marseille University)
“Avicenna on the Forms of Argumentation of the mutakallimūn: An Analysis of the Risāla fī taʿaqqub al-mawḍiʿ al-jadalī”; at the conference “Avicenna and the kalām III: Epistemology and Natural Science”, 05-06 March 2025, organized by Cristina Cerami (CNRS) & Damien Janos (ALU Freiburg/CNRS) as part of the seminar of the CHSPAM (Centre d’Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Médiévales) and in coordination with the project AtomIsT (Atoms in Islamic Tradition).
For program, see:
2024 talk by Fouad Mlih (Université de Lorraine)
« L’Art de la Dialectique chez Ibn Sīnā (Avicenne, m. 428/1037) »
Link to video:
https://www.facebook.com/Philosmus/videos/807091874811398
2024 talk by Walter Edward Young (McGill University)
“Uṣūlist Anticipations of the Conditional Perfection Problem: Evading Inverse Errors in Dalīl al-Khiṭāb, Mafhūm al-Mukhālafa, and al-Istidlāl bi-l-Ḥaṣr”; at the 12th Annual AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop: “Language and Meaning in Islamic Legal Theory”, 04-05 July 2024, organized by Syed Wajee-ul Hasan Shah, Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham.
Workshop program:
2024 Lecture Series:
Qatar Debate, The Etiquette of Debate Lecture Series (سلسلة محاضرات آداب المناظرة)
(A lecture series to explain the principles of research & debate etiquette in Islamic Civilization)
https://qatardebate.org/ar/programs/etiquette-of-debate/?fbclid=IwAR1tlnqBJZfXcWAro5ShDtCTG40Sc1EAhdk_NfEGUKkAwTDWZQD0C9w0Hig
https://qatardebate.org/programs/etiquette-of-debate/
2023 talk by Walter Edward Young (McGill University)
“Engraving Munāẓara on the Mind: Gelenbevi’s Illustrative Examples in the Risālat al-Ādāb;” at the conference “An 18th Century Ottoman Polymath: A Conference on the Life, Works, and Thought of al-Fāḍil Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī (d. 1791)”, 17-18 Nov 2023, organized by Yasser Qureshy, University of Cambridge.
Link to conference program:
Publications (Recent)
2025 Article:
Ahmed El-Badawy Salem Mohamed Salem, “Ādāb al-Baḥth wa-l-Munāẓara min Manẓūr al-Istishrāq al-Muʿāṣir”
آداب البحث والمناظرة من منظور الاستشراق المعاصر: لاري ميلر ووالتر يونج نموذجًا
أحمد البدوي سالم محمد سالم
https://qarts.journals.ekb.eg/article_423830.html
2024 Edition-Translation:
Tayyan and Poe, eds. and transl. The Compendium of Seminary Texts
Er, Muhammad Emin. The Compendium of Seminary Texts. Twelve parallel English–Arabic teaching texts edited and translated by Marwan M. Tayyan and Justin Poe. Boston: ASIPT, 2024.
NB: This collection includes the skilful edition-translation of M. Emin Er’s munāẓara manual, al-Lubāb fī ʿIlm al-Munāẓara wa-l-Ādāb.
2024 Edited Volume:
Gazziero, et al., eds., Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions (Ad Argumenta, Quaestio Special Issues 4)
A small teaser of what RevLogRedux can contribute, this first-of-its-kind edited volume is available, open access (see link below), thanks to the patient, hard work of Leone Gazziero and his fellow editors Laurent Cesalli, Charles Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio. Contributions to this unique volume include the following:
- Sten Ebbesen, Are the Fallacies Topoi?
- Costantino Marmo, The Fallacia Consequentis between Term Logic and Sentence Logic in its Medieval Reception
- Leone Gazziero, “Qui imperitus est vestrum, primus calculum omittat”. Aristotelis Sophistici Elenchi 1 in the Boethian Tradition
- Irene Caiazzo, Theology, Fallacious Reasoning and Heresy on the Borders of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Some Remarks on the Fallaciae in theologia and Amalricians
- Melpomeni Vogiatzi, Byzantine Treatments of Fallacy: The Reception of Aristotle’s Account
- Shahid Rahman & Walter Edward Young, Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic
- Hassan Rezakhany, A Forgotten Mereological Paradox
- Charles H. Manekin, Fallacies and Biblical Exegesis – The Case of Joseph ibn Kaspi
- Aviram Ravitsky, Fallacies in Rabbinical Thought, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and in the Treatise on Talmudic Methodology by Abraham Elijah Cohen
- Yehuda Halper, Are Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion Fallacies? Evidence from the Hebrew Aristotelian Logical Tradition
Open access link:
2024 Article:
Muhammed Komath, “Defeasible Reasoning in Islamic Legal Theory”
Komath, Muhammed. “Defeasible Reasoning in Islamic Legal Theory.” Informal Logic, vol. 44, no. 3 (2024): 431-467.
https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/8910
2024 Article:
Rahman & Young, “Outside the Logic of Necessity”
Our latest demonstration of what Islamicate dialectics can bring to modern argumentation theory.
Rahman, Shahid, and Walter Edward Young. “Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic.” In Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions, (Ad Argumenta, Quaestio Special Issues 4), pp. 153-185. Laurent Cesalli, Leone Gazziero, Charles Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio, eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024.
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137520
2024 Article:
Mourad Laabdi, “ʿIlm al-Ikhtilāf al-Fiqhī fī l-Dirāsāt al-Gharbiyya wa-l-Dirāsāt al-Islāmiyya l-Muʿāṣira”
علم الاختلاف الفقهي في الدراسات الغربية والدراسات الإسلامية المعاصرة: دراسة تحليلية نقدية
مراد العبدي
https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/sharia/article/view/4335/2889
2023 Translation:
Fouad Mlih, Book I of Ibn Sīnā’s Kitāb al-Jadal
Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh. La Dialectique. Livre I du Kitāb al-Ğadal. Transl. Fouad Mlih. Paris: Vrin, 2023.
https://www.vrin.fr/livre/9782711631377/la-dialectique
2023 Book Review:
El-Rouayheb on Miller’s Islamic Disputation Theory
El-Rouayheb, Khaled. “Review of Islamic Disputation Theory: The Uses & Rules of Argument in Medieval Islam, by Larry Benjamin Miller.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 61, no. 3 (2023): 518-520.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hph.2023.a902883.
Publications (Recently Learned of)
al-Buzūr, ‘Abd al-Karīm. Al-Jadal al-Fiqhī ʿinda al-Mālikiyya min al-Taʾsīs ilā al-Tanzīl. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2021.
McAuliffe, Jane Dammen. “The Genre Boundaries of Qur’ānic Commentary.” In With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism Christianity and Islam, edited by. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry Walfish, and Joseph Goering, pp. 445-61. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [There is a considerable amount of discussion about jadal in this work.]
al-Mursalī, Muḥammad. Dawr al-Manṭiq al-ʿArabī fī Taṭwīr al-Manṭiq al-Muʿāṣir. Casablanca: Dār Tūbqāl li-l-Nashr, 2004.
Muz’hir, Walīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Al-Munāẓara wa-l-Ḥijāj: Dirāsa fī l-Nathr al-Andalusī. Basra: Shahrayār, 2020.
al-Naqārī, Ḥammū. Manṭiq al-Kalām. Min al-Manṭiq al-Jadalī l-Falsafī ilā l-Manṭiq al-Hijājī al-Uṣūlī. Rabat: Dār al-Amān li-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzīʿ, 2005.
al-Rāḍī, Rashīd. Al-Ḥijāj wa-l-Mughālaṭa: Min al-Ḥiwār fī l-ʿAql ilā l-ʿAql fī l-Ḥiwār. Beirut: Dār al-Kitāb al-Jadīd al-Muttaḥida, 2021.
Yūnus, Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Murḍī ʿAlī. Taḥrīr Maḥall al-Nizāʿ: Lamaḥāt Uṣūliyya Jadaliyya fī Idārat al-Khilāf fī l-Baḥth al-Uṣūlī. Cairo: al-Maktaba al-ʿUmariyya, 2022.
Online Audio / Video (New or Recently Learned of)
Safaruk Chowdhury: The Art of Debate and Disputation, the Sapience Institute Online Course (free)
Argumunazara YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Argumunazara
The Rashīdiyya in 19 lessons (Urdu and Arabic)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgXDmXm0Jh8GCGjlg3D0DAerKSY1x4S-n
Society for the Study of Islamicate Dialectical Disputation (SSIDD) 
Congratulations Dr Young! So many wonderful achievements!
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