"The Textbook Tradition and Higher Research: Kātibī's Shamsiyyah on Disputed Points in Logic" by Dr. Tony Street
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Najm al-Din al-Katibi (d. 1276) wrote a logic text for intermediate students, The Epistle on Logical Rules for Shams al-Din. It became wildly successful, read by most students in the course of their madrasah education. What made it such a bestseller? Some...