Zayd
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
زيد · the external Zayd · زيداً الخارجي
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The standard Arabic logical placeholder name, used here to make vivid the absurdity of a plurality of knowing souls within one knower.
If every part is a knower, then there are knowing souls, like the soul of Zayd and ʻAmr and Khālid — whereas our discourse is of a single knower and a single knowing of the known.
And the ant and the camel imagine a need in the future and so store up, while they are ignorant and do not distinguish between the property of Zayd and of Khālid, nor between the impure and the pure.
And the beasts, since ignorance encompasses them and poverty pervades them, you see committing ugly deeds — such as copulating without covering, and eating the property of Zayd and ʻAmr.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Stock exemplary individual used to illustrate the multiplicity of the sensible and imagined form of a single reality.
and in both states it admits of multiplicity according to individuals, as with the form of Zayd and of ʻAmr and of Bakr.
And there is no doubt that when it is said that Zayd is qualified by ʻAmr's attributes, what is meant thereby is not his being qualified by those attributes together with the determinations which those attributes acquire from ʻAmr's essence — such as their individuation by reason of their subsisting in him, and the other determinations consequent upon that reality's subsisting in ʻAmr — but rather …
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Zayd, the conventional named individual of Arabic logic, used here as the perceived particular under the universal 'man'.
when we say « Zayd is a man » as we observe his body, the universal « man » is not the body of Zayd, but rather we observe it (2) by the intellect.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Zayd, the conventional named individual of Arabic logical and grammatical examples, used here twice: as the supposedly external object of perception that turns out to be the soul's own self-manifestation, and as the familiar person whose conception illustrates a will that does not precede its act.
Thus you apprehended your soul by your soul, and you apprehended nothing outside yourself — though by a figure of speech you say, “I apprehended the external Zayd.
yet your will did not attach to conceiving him and only then did you perform that conceiving — rather, that act of yours is the self-disclosure (*tajallī*) of your will.
” And that is as when you conceive the Zayd whom you know from
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The conventional placeholder name of Arabic grammatical and logical examples, here the subject of a negative judgment
It is no secret that every negative judgment involves an affirmation, since the denial of its quality of a thing indicates the verifying of the absence of that quality.