Works by Ahmed, Asad, 1977‒ as author 13
Underdetermination in late postclassical Ḥanafī legal theories
This article argues that Ḥanafī uṣūlīs of the later phases of the postclassical period understood uṣūl to be universal propositions that were underdetermined with respect to their evidentiary bases. Though the purpose of such propositions was to confer actionable certainty to particular legal effects, the later tradition imagined the main charge of uṣūl al-fiqh on a meta-theoretic level, i.e., to determine how such propositions could themselves be suitably grounded. In casting the discourse within the framework of naturalized technical methods and distinctions from fields of logic and philosophy, the tradition generally granted the relational and systemic validity of each proposition in terms of the grounding it received from another underdetermined proposition. This second-order perspective of the tradition reveals that uṣūl were systemically and relationally valid, but individually underdetermined. Thus the application of the attribute of relational validity to them and to the effects for which they are serviceable is apt.
Editions 1
The Sullam al-'ulūm of (d. 1707) Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī
Editions 1
Relationships with other works 1
Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī's (d. 1861), al-Hadiyya al-Saʿīdiya
Editions 1
The reception of Avicenna's theory of motion in the twelfth century
Editions 1
Theology in the Indian subcontinent
Editions 1 Translations 1
Logic in the Khayrābādī School of India: a preliminary exploration
Editions 1
The Shifāʾ in India I : reflections on the evidence of the manuscripts
Editions 1
Relationships with other works 1
Systematic growth in sustained error : a case study in the dynamism of post-classical islamic scholasticism
Editions 1
The jihal/tropos-mādda/hūlē distinction in arabic logic and its significance for Avicenna's modals
Editions 1
Relationships with other works 1
Prosopography and the reconstruction of Ḥijāzī history for the early islamic period : the case of the ʿAwfīd family
Editions 1
Avicenna's reception of aristotelian modal syllogistics : A study based on conversion rules and the "brbara" problematic
Editions 1
