Works by Bosniaks in the field of logic in the Arabic language

This paper gives a survey of the most prominent Bosniak authors, and their writings in Arabic based on authentic manuscripts (around 1,000 manuscript pages). Our focus has been on: – Hasan Kāfī Pruščak and his work: Kafi’s Compendium of Logic (Muhtasar al-Kāfī min al-mantiq, 1580) and Commentary on Kafi’s Compendium of Logic (Šarh Muhtasar al-Kāfī min al-mantiq, 1583); – Muhamed, the son of Musa, Allamek and his work Commentary on the Shining Treatise (Šarh ar-Risāla aš-šamsiyya,1626); – Mustafa Ejubović – Šejh Jujo and his four writings: Commentary on Treatise on Logic (Šarh ar-Risāla al-Alīriyya fi al-mantiq, 1682), or, as it was populary called, Commentary on “Isagugi (Šarh Īsāgūğī); A Useful Gloss for “Al-Fanāri Notes on Alīri” Treatise on Logic” (Hāšiya mufīda li al-Fawā’id al-Fanāriyya ‘alā ar-Risāla fī almantiq, 1692); New Commentary on the “Shining Treatise” (aš-Šarh al-ğadīd ‘alā aš-Šamsiyya fī al-mantiq, 1690); Commentary on “Education in Logic and Apologhetic” (Šarh ‘alā Tahrīb al-mantiq wa al-kalām, 1706); – Muhamed Čajničanin and his work Revealing Secrets of Commenting on Isagogue (Fath al-asrār fi šarh Īsāgūğī, 1780); – Ibrahim, the son of Ramadan, Bosniak and his work Notes on the “Commentary on Shining Treatise” (Ta’liqat ‘ala Šarh aš-Šamsiyya, the mid-17th century); – Fadil Užičanin and his work Commentary on the text “Isagogua” by the mullah Fadil Užičanin (Šarh matn Īsāgūğī li mawlā al-Fādil Ūžičawalī , the mid-17th century) and – Muhamed, the son of Yusuf, Bosniak and his work Revealing Secrets of Commenting on “Isagoga”, the science of logic, the second part of the 18th century (Fath al-asrār fī šarh Īsāgūğī fī ‘ilm al-mantiq). The survey of these writings clearly tells of continuons dealing with logic and interest in it in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly from the beginng of the 16th century when our people startecd creating more intensively in the Arabic language and in the Arabic-Islamic spiritual and cultural traditions, to the end of the 19th century.