Introuction to Logic, Part 1 (Arabic Required) - al-Sullam al-Munawraq,

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This introductory course aims to familiarise students and educators with the concepts, terms, and methods of Classical Logic, the basis of the traditional sciences.

Taught by Shaykh Shams Tameez.

The course will be taught completely in English, referencing the poem al-Sullam al-Munawraq, a copy of which will be provided to all attendees.

Topics:

• The Challenge of Defining Terms in Classical Logic

• The Relationship Between Reality and Definitions

• The Correspondence Between Terms and Meaning

• The Five Universals

• Propositions and their Types

• The Syllogism and Other Forms of Logical Demonstration

• Material Logic: The Conditions of Proof

Course timings

Lessons will start on Monday, the 9 January and will run on Mondays. Timings may need to flexible, but recordings will be available.

Note: This course will cover the first half of the text and will run for approximately 10 sessions.

Course instructor

Shaykh Shams Tameez is a graduate of UK-based seminary Jamia al-Karam. He then completed the Diploma at the Cambridge Muslim College in Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership. After this he worked as an Imam at Aylesbury Mosque in Buckinghamshire before embarking on further studies in Istanbul at the Abu Hanifa Institute. He has also been fortunate to study with great scholars from Syria currently residing in Istanbul such as Shaykh Khalid al-Kharsa, Shaykh Adnan Darwesh, Shaykh Ridwan al-Kaheel and Shaykh Muhammad Shuqayr and Turkish scholars such as Mulla Yavus. He then travelled to Tarim in Yemen for one year where he was blessed to study at Dar al-Mustafa. He returned to the UK and completed a Master degree at SOAS University in Islamic studies. He is currently pursing a PhD at Ibn Haldun University focusing on Islamic theology along with studying at the IKAN seminary specialising in the Islamic rational sciences. He continues to be a teacher & lecturer at the Karima Foundation.