Formation of the tradition of logic in Islamic cultural Universe during the era of awakening

Abstract

The year 610 was a turning point for the history of humanity because the first divinely revelations to Prophet Muhammad were sent, and the birth of a new religion appeared in Arab peninsula. There became an Islamic population along with inclusion and conversion of various faith and race groups to Islam. This group of people, or society, was establishing its unique cultural world with the language they share, thought system, art and science from the first decades of emergence. In this cultural world, which consisted of the contributions and the effects of several other cultures, the science of logic, though it depended on Ar- istotle’s idea of logic, was also emerging to become a tradition of its own among other sciences. This study attempts to present the establishment of Islamic tradi- tion of logic which has a unique place within general history of logic in the era, which I call “the era of awakening,” between 8th and 12th centuries.