Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān شرح رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Zaylah ابن زيلة

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Commentary by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah (أبو منصور الحسين بن طاهر بن زيلة, d. 1048) on the Epistle of Alive Son of Awake (رسالة حي بن يقظان) a philosophical allegory by his teacher Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). For the text commented upon, see previous item (ff. 13v-15v).

Extent and format

Ff. 16v-24v

It is part of

Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)

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Ref: Add MS 16659

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v

History of this record

Date(s)

1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

Finding aids

• 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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Edition and French translation of text commented upon, including French translation of much of Ibn Zaylah's commentary:

• Rasāʾil al-shaykh al-raʾīs Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd 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. 1

Studies of text commented upon

• Kukkonen, Taneli ‘Ḥayy b. Yaqẓān’, in Encyclopaedia of Islam , THREE, edited by Kate Fleet et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30417 (accessed 16 October 2019)
• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 317, p. 127, item PH7

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Ibn ZaylahAvicenna

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Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān شرح رسالة حي بن يقظان Ibn Zaylah ابن زيلة, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000005> [accessed 26 August 2024]

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