Kitāb katabahu al-shaykh Abī (!) Saʻīd ibn Abū (!) al-Khayr qaddasa sirrahu ilá shaykh al-raʼīs Ibn Sīnā fī maʻná al-ziyārah wa-kayfīyat taʼthīrihā كتاب كتبه الشيخ أبي (!) سعيد بن أبو (!) الخير قدس سره إلى شيخ الرئيس ابن سينا في معنى الزيارة و كيفية تأثيرها Avicenna ابن سينا

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Answers attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) to questions concerning the metaphysical causes for the effects of visiting the tombs of saints posed by the sufi Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-Khayr al-Mayhanī (أبو سعيد بن أبي الخير الميهني, d. 1049).

Extent and format

Ff. 520v-521v

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 520v-521v

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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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. 3, pp. 44-48
• Shams al-Dīn, ʻAbd al-Amīr Z., al-Madhhab al-tarbawī ʻinda Ibn Sīnā (Beirut: al-Shirkah al-ʻĀlamīyah lil-Kitāb, 1988), pp. 388-91
• 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. 281-88

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: 2014), pp. 490-91

Subjects

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Abū Saʻīd ibn Abī al-KhayrAvicenna

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Kitāb katabahu al-shaykh Abī (!) Saʻīd ibn Abū (!) al-Khayr qaddasa sirrahu ilá shaykh al-raʼīs Ibn Sīnā fī maʻná al-ziyārah wa-kayfīyat taʼthīrihā كتاب كتبه الشيخ أبي (!) سعيد بن أبو (!) الخير قدس سره إلى شيخ الرئيس ابن سينا في معنى الزيارة و كيفية تأثيرها Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 520v-521v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000021> [accessed 27 August 2024]

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