Abstract

A partial reconstruction of the lost Tafsir of the Mu tazilite theologian Abu Ali al-Jubba'i , reassembled from quotations in work of the Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, al-Sharif al-Murtada, al-Ash ari, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, and others. Included are a biographical essay, an analytical essay, an English translation, and the Arabic text. The thesis that Abu Ali was using Stoic propositional logic and not Aristotelian categorical logic is supported by showing that virtually every logical argument proceeds according to one of six Stoic inference schemata