Galen's Institutio Logica and al-Fārābī's Logic. A reassessment of parallelisms that show a possible influence (original) (raw)

The aim of the following paper is to evaluate a possible influence of Galen's Institutio logica on al-Farabi's logic, following Zimmermann's and Lameer's evidence for some parallelisms between them. Among the scholars studying al-Farabi's logic, we find at least two authors that affirm such a textual relation, Zimmermann and Lameer. However, this influence is explicitly denied at least by Hodges, another scholar studying on al-Farabi's logic. This paper will focus on establishing what are the arguments for this influence, in Zimmermann's and Lameer's terms, and then reevaluate the possibility of this influence after comparing al-Farabi's and Galen's writings.