Kitāb al-maʻād كتاب المعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
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The record is made up of Ff. 449v-466r. It was created in 1182. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.
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Treatise on the immortality of the soul in sixteen parts (فصول) 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).
A Persian translation of this work is item 21, above (ff. 381v-402r), and a shorter recension of the Persian version is item 22 (ff. 403v-410r).
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- Add MS 16659, ff 449v-466r
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- 1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)
- 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:
- Avicenna, Aḥwāl an-nafs , ed. by Aḥmad Fuʼād al-Ahwānī (Cairo: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Kutub al-ʿArabīyah, 1371/1952), pp. 43–142
Translations of individual parts of the original Arabic text:
- Part One: Michot, Jean R., 'Avicenne, La définition de l’âme. Section I de l’Épître des états de l’âme. Traduction critique et lexique," in Langages et philosophie: hommage à Jean Jolivet , ed. by A. de Libera, A. Elamrani-Jamal and A. Galonnier (Paris: J. Vrin, 1997), pp. 239–56
- Part Ten: Monnot, Guy, 'La transmigration et l’immortalité', Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicaine d’Études Orientales 14 (1980) 156–58
- Part Thirteen: Michot, Jean R., 'Prophétie et divination selon Avicenne. Présentation, essai de traduction critique et index de l’"Épître de l’âme de la sphère"', Revue Philosophique de Louvain 83 (1985) 507–35
- Part Sixteen: 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. 22-24
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. 102-03 and 477-79
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