Risālah al-marmūzah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah رسالة المرموزة للشيخ الرئيس قدس سره Avicenna ابن سينا
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The record is made up of Ff. 436v-437v. It was created in 1182. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Allegorical work by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).
In the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. , the title is given as The Epistle Called The Bird (الرسالة المسماة بالطير, f. 437v, lines 20-21).
A Persian commentary on this text by Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Sahlān al-Sāwajī (عمر بن سهلان الساوجي, also al-Sāwī [الساوي], fl. early 12th century) is item 28, above (ff. 424v-435r).
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- Add MS 16659, ff 436v-437v
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- 1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)
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- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
- Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum , 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39
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Editions:
- Rasāʼil al-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā fī asrār al-ḥikmah al-mashriqīyah. Traités mystiques d'Abou Alî al-Hosain b. Abdallah b. Sînâ ou d'Avicenne , edited by August Ferdinand Mehren, 4 fascicles (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1889-99), fasc. 2, pp. 42-48
- al-Tafsīr al-qurʼānī wa-al-lughah al-ṣūfīyah fī falsafat Ibn Sīnā , edited by Ḥasan ʻĀṣī (Beirut: al-Muʼassasah al-Jāmiʻīyah, 1402/1983), pp 336-43
Translations:
- Corbin, Henry, Avicenne et le récit visionnaire (Paris: Berg International, 1979), pp. 203-09
- Heath, Peter, 'Disorientation and Reorientation in Ibn Sina’s Epistle of the Bird: A Reading', in Intellectual Studies on Islam. Essays Written in Honor of Martin B. Dickson , edited by Michel M. Mazzaoui and Vera B. Moreen (Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1990), pp. 163–183, on pp. 164-168
- Rasāʼil al-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā fī asrār al-ḥikmah al-mashriqīyah. Traités mystiques d'Abou Alî al-Hosain b. Abdallah b. Sînâ ou d'Avicenne , edited by August Ferdinand Mehren 4 fascicles (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1889-99), fasc. 2, pp. 27-32
Study:
- Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works , 2nd ed., including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014), pp. 483-84
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