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The reception of the Aristotelian Organon in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages sparked a lively debate about the problematic relationship between logic and theology. On the one hand, theology faced new logical theories and methods of argumentation; on the other hand, logic was to provide explanatory models and techniques for the analysis of theological problems. The contributions in this volume discuss this twofold challenge on the basis of key texts and authors, ranging from early Islamic theology to the Christian later Middle Ages.

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Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universitat in Berlin. His published works include Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert (1992), Reprasentation bei Descartes (1996) and Theorien der Intentionalitat im Mittelalter (2002). Ulrich Rudolph is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Zurich. He has published Die Doxographie des Pseudo-Ammonios (1989), Al-Maturidi und die sunnitische Theologie in Samarkand (1997) and Islamische Philosophie. Von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart (2004). The editors are the co-authors of Occasionalismus. Theorien der Kausalitat im arabisch-islamischen und im europaischen Denken (2000).

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