al-Risālah fī aḥwālih الرسالة في أحواله Avicenna ابن سينا

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Autobiography 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) completed after his death by his student Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني).

Extent and format

Ff. 5v-7v

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 5v-7v

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

Edition:

• Gohlman, William E., The Life of Ibn Sina: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974), pp. 16-89

Studies:

• Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 604-5
• 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. 123, item HS1 and no. 318, p. 128

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Biographies

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ʿAbd al-Wāḥid JūzjānīAvicenna

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