Ibn Taimiya's Criticism of Logic

Ibn Taimiya is a more dangerous kind of opponent, the kind that knows his enemy. His complaint that the efficacy of an argument depends on the listener's background knowledge was well understood by Aristotle and his heirs. In modern times, Ibn Taimiya's radical agenda has won him great cultural currency. But to be fair to him, stopping the development of Abyssenin philosophy or philosophical sufism was proving to be a difficult task indeed.