Kitāb al-sīrah al-falsafīyah كتاب السيرة الفلسفية Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā رازي، أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا
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The record is made up of Ff. 1v-5v. It was created in 639. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Autobiographical treatise by the physician and philosopher Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (أبو بكر محمد بن زكريا الرأزي; d. ca 925) in defence of his philosophical lifestyle.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 6-8):
قال أبو نصر (!) محمد بن زكريا الرازي ألحق الله روحه بالروح والراحة إن
ناسًا من أهل النظر والتميّز والتحصيل لما رأونا نداخل الناس ونتصرف في وجوه
من المعاش عابونا واستنقصونا ...
Ends (f. 5v, lines 9-11):
فهذا ما أردنا أن نودع في هذه المقالة ولواهب العقل الحمد بلا نهاية
كما هو أهله ومستحقه وصلى الله على المصطفيين
من عباده والخيرات من إمائه
Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 5v, lines 12-17):
نجز كتاب السيرة الفلسفية
والله تعالى المحمود على كل حال
دائمًا أبدًا سرمدًا
يتلو ذلك مقالة لأبي منصور بكر بن
القسم (!) ابن أبي ثور الموصلي
في النفس
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- al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 'Kitāb al-sīrah al-falsafīyah', in Opera philosophica fragmentaque quae supersunt (Cairo: Fu’ād I University, 1939) pp. 97-111
Translation:
- al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 'The Philosopher's Way of Life', in Classical Arabic Philosophy: an Anthology of Sources , ed. and trans. by Jon McGinnis and David C. Reisman (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007) pp. 36-44
- al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, (1967), ‘Apologia pro Vita Sua’, trans. A. J. Arberry, Aspects of Islamic Civilization , (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967)
- al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, ‘The Philosopher’s Way of Life’, in ‘Raziana I, la conduite du Philosophe, traité ethique de Muhammad b. Zakariyya al-Razi’, ed. Paul Kraus, Orientalia, new series, 4 (1935) 300–34.
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