Would you compare Mullah Abdullah's gloss on Tahzib with Muzafar's logic? Can we say that Mullah Abdullah's gloss represents the school of Shiraz and Muzafar's work represents the school of Najaf?

I think these divisions and classifications are not viable as there are many similarities between these schools along with their existed differences. However, one can say that Mullah Abdullah's work bears some features that recalls the intellectual ambience of the school of Shiraz which was more focused on the revival of past masterpieces through writing glosses and interpretations on them while Muzafar's book in my opinion is a product of his own personal ideals in the field of Islamic sciences. He was interested in development of Islamic sciences based on the logic and had a methodological approach to this discipline.

What is your opinion of the new textbooks for courses of logic in seminaries?

As time goes on new problems emerge and they demand to be addressed in new light. Then we have to work on these issues and revise our textbooks according to them. New textbooks have to be authored for these courses and introduce the seminarians to the newly emerged problems.  

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