Dāwūd al-Muqammaṣ and the Beginning of Hebrew Logic

MS Mich. 335 in the Bodleian library, from the 15th century, is a collection of philosophical works in Hebrew, predominantly concerned with logic. Among them is a short text entitled Treatise on the Four Inquiries, attributed to ‘Al-Muqammas.’ The present study shows that this treatise is in fact a Hebrew adaptation of the first chapter of Dāwūd al-Muqammaṣ’s Twenty Chapters, which was repurposed into a self-standing introduction to logic. This finding enhances the growing appreciation of Al-Muqammaṣ’s place in the history of Jewish philosophy, extending it to the field of logic. The study is accompanied by an edition of the Hebrew text with a parallel English translation.