A Brief Sketch of Organon

This chapter discusses how Organon is classified in Europe (six books) and the Muslim worlds (eight books). It is not only a matter of preference but also confusion and misunderstanding. For instance, there are some Iran-based Muslim logicians who misunderstand Organon as one single book, and this confusion is regrettably common in the Muslim world. Various misinterpretations concerning the Aristotelian logic seems to be started on Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s and his team’s translation of Aristotle books in which case the translations were not verbatim but applying the ad sensum approach. Unfortunately, al-Farabi and Ibn Sina learned the Aristotelian logic through the translations of Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his team.