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"In this historically wide-ranging study, Dustin Klinger looks at an issue that was pivotal in both ancient Greek and medieval Arabic philosophy. Taking the story from Aristotle to Avicenna and his reception, the book is an important contribution to the exciting field of logic and philosophy language in the Islamic world."--Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich

"Klinger's study of medieval Arabic and Islamic views of the copula--the crucial element that links subject and predicate in a proposition--is remarkable on a number of counts: its historical range, the number of sources it incorporates, and its engagement with modern philosophical discussions of the analysis of propositions. It is an important contribution to the field of Arabic-Islamic philosophy and logic."--Khaled El-Rouayheb, Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University