Ṭarīqat Ibn Sīnā min Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal طريقة ابن سينا من كتاب الملل والنحل Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm شهرستاني، محمد بن عبد الكريم

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Outline of the doctrines of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) extracted from the Book of the Religions and Sects (كتاب الملل والنحل) by Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad al-Shahrastānī (تاج الدين أبو الفتح محمد بن عبد الكريم بن أحمد الشهرستاني, d. 1153).

Extent and format

Ff. 346r-368v

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 346r-368v

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

Select Bibliography

Editions:

• Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects: Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal , edited by William Cureton, 2 vols. (London: Society for the Publication of Oriental Text, 1842-6; repr. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1923; repr. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2002)
• Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal , edited by by Muḥammad ibn Fatḥ Allāh Badrān, 2 vols. (Cairo: Maṭbaʿat al-Azhar, 1370-5 [1951-5])

French translation:

• Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, Livre des religions et des sectes , translated by Daniel Gimaret, Jean Jolivet and Guy Monnot, 2 vols. (Leuven: Peeters; Paris: UNESCO, 1986-93)

German Translation:

• Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, Abu-'l-Fatḥ Muḥammad asch-Schahrastâni's Religionspartheien und Philosophenschulen , translated by Theodor Haarbrücker, 2 vols. in 1 (Halle: C.A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1850-1; repr. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1969)

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ShahrastānīAvicenna

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Ṭarīqat Ibn Sīnā min Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal طريقة ابن سينا من كتاب الملل والنحل Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm شهرستاني، محمد بن عبد الكريم, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 346r-368v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000010> [accessed 27 August 2024]

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