268 Anke von Kügelgen
the culmination of a tradition of anti-logical discourse as an ingenious
and creative selection of already existing but disparate arguments”.^60
Al-Radd ʿalā al-manṭiqiyyīn was printed for the first time in 1949 in
Bombay with a foreword by Sayyid Sulaymān Nadwī (d. 1953), a for-
mer commissioner of teaching at the Islamic Academy (Dār al-ʿulūm)
of Nadwat al-ʿulamāʾ in Lucknow.^61 A much shortened, but very con-
cise abridgment of it by al-Suyūṭī (see chapter 5) was masterfully trans-
lated into English by Wael B. Hallaq and prefaced with a substantial
introduction.^62 Detailed studies of specific aspects of the original, its
summary, or his minor rejections of logic are still rather few.^63
60 Hallaq, Ibn Taymiyya, p. xlvii.
61 It was printed a second time in Cairo in 1977 by ʿAbd al-Sattār Naṣṣār and ʿImād
Khafājī. For further information on Sayyid Sulaymān Nadwī, see Hartung, Jan-
Peter: Viele Wege und ein Ziel. Leben und Wirken von Sayyid Abū l-Ḥasan
ʿAlī al-Ḥasanī Nadwī (1914–1999), Würzburg 2004, index, “Nadwī, Sayyid
Sulaymān,” s. v. (he regrets the absence of a biography of that eminent scholar,
pp. 87–88, n. 178).
62 Hallaq, Ibn Taymiyya.
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