S?n?’s (d. 1037 ce) very important compendium al-Naj?t (The Deliverance). The original, written in Arabic, is the product of the middle period of the most renowned Muslim philosopher and physician, known in the Latin West as Avicenna. Avicenna’s logical system took as its starting point the Aristotelian and the Peripatetic tradition, but diverged from these in fascinating and original ways. The system presented by him became the standard of reference and focus of further elaboration, debate, and innovation in the Islamic scholarly tradition, deeply influencing both the ‘traditional religious’ sciences (such as theology and law) and the naturalized Greek system (such as metaphysics). Because the Naj?t is both comprehensive and relatively terse, this translation, which has been the diachronic subject of study in various mad?ris and has a number of attached commentaries and glossaries, will be useful to those who do not read Arabic, but who wish to gain an overview of Avicenna’s logic.

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