Avicenna en de dageraad van de Perzische logica: een formele, taalkundige en filosofische analyse van Dāneš-nāma-ye ʿAlāʾi

In this dissertation, I explore the origins of Persian logic by focusing on the logical section of the first philosophical work in Modern Persian, i.e., Philosophy for ʿAlā-al-Dawla (Dāneš-nāma-ye ʿalāʾi). After covering the state of the art in the introduction, I first argue for the eminent status of Persian logic as a sub-discipline in Islamicate logic. I do this by arguing against the label that has been widely used to refer to the logical tradition in the Islamic world, i.e., 'Arabic logic'. I maintain that this tradition is not limited to works composed in the Arabic language and/or by authors of Arabic ethnicity. In the case of Persian, there is a clear sub-discipline that has its own distinctive features and that has Philosophy for ʿAlāʾ-al-Dawla as its origin. In Chapter 3, I explain what logic means to Avicenna. I do this by focusing on the three fundamental elements that constitute Avicenna's conception of logic, i.e., its definition, its status and its goal, in his five major works (including his Persian summa). In Chapter 4, I provide a new English translation of the logical section of Philosophy for ʿAlāʾ-al-Dawla. This is done to address the shortcomings of the old English translation by Farhang Zabeeh and to shed new light on the linguistic and formal intricacies of the treatise. In Chapter 5, I establish a bridge between contemporary research in logical geometry and history of logic. I do this by showing the two-way interaction between Avicenna's treatment of disjunctions of arbitrary arity and the contemporary set-based Aristotelian relations. Once again, the relevant logical sections of Philosophy for ʿAlāʾ-al-Dawla play a significant role in establishing this bridge. Finally, Chapter 6 concludes the dissertation by underscoring the importance of Persian logic through summarizing the main arguments of the dissertation and suggesting new paths for future research.