The Origins of the Post-Classical Commentary Culture

Avocenna is the person who in some ways or in many ways starts this post-classical philosophical commentary culture. His works served as the basis for future commentaries, particularly in the 12th and 13th centuries. Nissiruddin Toussi wrote a philosophical creed called Tedrita Litakad which itself spurred enormous number of commentaries, super commentaries, glosses and super glosses. But not only Toussi, his contemporaries, as we need care to be and Elabhuri, wrote philosophical texts and logical texts which engendered enormous commentary traditions. Between them between them probably engendered commentary traditions with over 100 or 150 or so commentaries,super comment