Abstract
A STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE WORK ESAGOGE OF EBHERI AND ITS STUDYING IN OTTOMAN - ALBANIAN MADRASAS
Muslim philosophers borrowed Logic like many other sciences from the ancient Greeks, especially from Aristotle. Aristotle’s thoughts and opinions on Logic were gathered by his students in a philosophical work named “Organon”. In the third century Prophyrius Tyrius, the Neo – Plotinian philosopher wrote an introduction to the first part of “Organon”, to the Category part which he titled ‘Esagoge’. The best known of which was the one of Esiruddin Eb’heri (1276), whose work is known as “Esagoge” or “Risaletul Ethirijje fil Mantik”. This work, along with other works in the field of Logic, was part of the teaching program in Albanian madrasas, which existed till the end of the last century. In this paper, first I will introduce and analyze the work Esagoge of Ebheri and then I will try to talk about learning this work in Albanian madrasas, focusing on the Hafiz Nexhati’s Islamic school in Presevo.
Keywords
Logic, Aristotle, Esagoge, Ebheri, Ottoman - Albanian madrasas, Madrasa of Hafez Nexhati.
