The eighth lecture of the “Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres” hosted by Intisar Rabb, Hakkı Arslan, and Necmettin Kızılkaya will be: Walter Edward Young, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University „Form, Function and Historical Development of Genres of Juristic Dialectic (ʿilm al-jadal and ‘ilm al-khilāf)” to be held on August 25, Wednesday at 12pm (EST), … More Special Announcement: Forthcoming lecture on jadal and khilāf

NEW BOOK RELEASES:   Islamic Disputation Theory: The Uses & Rules of Argument in Medieval Islam Larry Miller Over 35 years ago, Larry Benjamin Miller completed his field-founding doctoral dissertation, Islamic Disputation Theory, and opened the way to rediscovering an ocean of sophisticated, premodern dialectic and critical argumentation. Thanks to the kind encouragement of Shahid Rahman, … More Announcements

New Book Release: Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World, edited by Peter Adamson I am happy to announce the release of the eagerly awaited volume Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World, edited by Peter Adamson. De Gruyters link: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/490400 Contents: Philosophical Reflections in the Poetry of al-Shāfiʿī Tamer, Georges Ethics and Fiqh in … More Announcements

Our digital edition of the ʿAyn al-Naẓar by Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī is now online. I am very pleased to announce the online release of our digital edition of the ʿAyn al-Naẓar, a short Arabic treatise by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī (d. 722/1322) on three logical relationships essential to dialectical disputation. Collated from … More Special Announcement

Call for Papers Workshop on the History of Arabic Logic, University of St. Andrews (7-8 May 2019) Deadline: 01 Feb https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/workshop-on-the-history-of-arabic-logic/?fbclid=IwAR2qmVv1tvZnFNiUnnyGlilesqelkwPGdwribvlg6_YBaT87jwzFFUN6sGA   Congratulations to Abdurrahim Bilik, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation: “Fıkhın Bir Alt Disiplini Olarak İlmu’l Hilaf” Here is the İSAM announcement: http://www.isam.org.tr/index.cfm?fuseaction=objects2.detail_content&cid=1416&cat_id=5   New / Recently Learned of Studies / Editions / … More Announcements

Coming soon (June 25-26) to UNILOG 2018, Vichy, France… LOGIC, LAW AND LEGAL REASONING Workshop at UNILOG’2018  organized by Shahid Rahman and Hans Christian Nordtveit Kvernenes; Dpt of Philosophy, Univ. Lille 3, UMR: 8163, STL, CNRS, France Keynote Speaker Walter Edward Young; McGill University, Montréal, Canada “On the Formal Evolution of Islamic Juridical Dialectic” Matthias … More Announcements

New SSIDD Video Playlist: Dramatized Disputations https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbiAc08pGkXi0ZNSn2rscoqsKQtFW_rI7 Collection of “Dramatized Disputations,” mostly from Arabic miniseries, posted on the SSIDD’s YouTube channel Forthcoming Conference http://cchs.csic.es/sites/default/files/content/event/2018/majlis_crone_6.02.2018.pdf  Patricia Crone Memorial Conference The Majlis Revisited: Inter- and intra-religious and cross-cultural disputations in the Islamicate world Casa Árabe, Cordoba 12-14 April, 2018 Organized by Camilla Adang; Sonja Brentjes; Maribel Fierro; … More Announcements

Forthcoming Talk / Conversation THE ART OF DISAGREEMENT, with Caner Dagli and Zaid Shakir Zaytuna College Livestream begins 7:30 pm EST | Thursday, September 28, 2017 https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/the-art-of-disagreement   New / Recently Discovered Publications:   المناظرة الفقهية: من منطق الجدل إلى منطق الحوار https://books.google.de/books?id=Vk_TDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=%22%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%AD+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%84%22&source=bl&ots=71x8ZMLAuw&sig=LxhMZgVuGL5I9APjiKKL4QhGQRs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSl4L9nprUAhVBNCwKHYemBNIQ6AEISTAE#v=onepage&q&f=false   An edition of Burhān al-Dīn al-Nasafī’s Mansha’ al-Naẓar, by Dr. Sharīfa bint … More Announcements