Bosniaks’ Works of Logic in the Arabic Language

Abstract

This paper gives a survey of the most prominent authors, Bosniaks, and their writings in Arabic based on authentic manuscripts (around l,ooo manuscript pages). Our focus has been on:

- Hasan Kafi Pruščak and his work: Kafi’s Compendium of Logic (Muhtasar al-Kafi min al-mantiq, 1583);

- Muhamed, the son of Musa, Allamek and his work Commentary on the Shining Treatise (Šarh ar-Risâla aš-Šamsiyya, 1626);

-Mustafa Ejubović - Šejh Jujo and his four writings: Commentary on Treatise on Logic (Šarh ar-Risâla al-Atiriyya fi al-mantiq, 1682), or, as it was populary called, Commentary on "Isagugi" (Šarh Isağüği); A Useful Gloss for "Al-Fanari Notes on Atiri’ Treatise on Logic" (Hašiya mufida li al- Fawa’îd al-Fanariyya ‘ala ar-Risala fi al-mantiq, 1692); New Commentary on the "Shining Treatise' (aš-Šarh al-ğadıd ‘ala aš-Šamsiyya fi al-mantiq, 1690); Commentary on "Education in Logic and Apologhetic" ( Šarh Tahdib al-mantiq wa al-kalam, 1706);

- Muhamed Čajničanin and his work Revealing Secrets of Commenting on Isagoga (Fath ai-asrar fi šarh al-Isağüği, around 178o);

-Ibrahim, the son of Ramadan, Bosniak and his work Notes on the "Commentary on Shining Treatise" (Ta‘liqat ‘ala Šarh aš-Šamsiyya, the mid-17th century);

- Fadil Užičanin and his work Commentary on the text "Isagoga" by the mullah Fadil Užičanin (Šarh matn Isağüği li mawla al-Fadil Užičawali, the mid-17th century) and

- Muhamed, the son of Jusuf, Bosniak and his work Revealing Secrets of Commenting on "Isagoga", the science of logic, the second part of the 18th century (Fath al-asrar fi šarh Isağüğı fi ‘ilm al-mantiq).

The survey of these writings clearly telis of continuing dealing with logic and interests in it in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly from the beginnig of the 16th century when our people started creating more intensively in the Arabic language and in the Arabic-Islamic spiritual and cultural fraditions, to the end of the 19th century.