Item 1 Recently published critical edition: al-Anṣārī, Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā’ b. Muḥammad, and Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Dasūqī. Fatḥ al-Wahhāb bi-Sharḥ al-Ādāb wa huwa Sharḥ ʿalā Risālat al-Ādāb fi’l-Baḥth wa’l-Munāẓara li’l-Imām Muḥammad b. Ashraf al-Samarqandī […] wa maʿahu Ḥāshiyat al-ʿAllāma Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿArafa al-Dasūqī. Ed. ʿArafa ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nādī. Kuwait: Dār al-Ḍiyā’ li’l-Nashr … More Recent Announcements

It was a long time in production, but my first book, The Dialectical Forge, has at last been released. The hardcover is in good shape, and–though the Springer webpage needs a bit more work at present–the paperback (“MyCopy”) and electronic (“eBook”) versions should be available now. Many thanks to all who helped make this possible! … More Book Release. Young, Walter. The Dialectical Forge: Juridical Disputation and the Evolution of Islamic Law.

The 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion — at the University of Warsaw, 18-22 June 2017… CFP in the following fields: Impact of religious beliefs on logical structures; Logic at the service of apologetics; Rationalization of religious beliefs; Justification in religious legal traditions (including Talmudic Logic); Logics vis-a-vis illogicalities in religion; Non-classical logics and … More 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion

Item 1 At the International Ṭaşkūbrīzādah Symposium (Istanbul Medeniyet University, November 18-20, 2016), two papers on Ṭaşkūbrīzādah’s Ādāb al-Baḥth will be presented: Kepekçi, Berra. “The Art of Disputation in the Context of Ṭaşkūbrīzādah’s Sharḥ Ādāb al-Baḥth wa’l-Munāẓara.” Arif, Syamsuddin. “Ṭaşkūbrīzādah on the Art of Disputation: Risālah fī Ādāb al-Baḥth wa al-Munāẓarah.” Item 2 Just published, secondary … More Recent Announcements