Risālah aḍḥawīyah fī amr al-maʿād رسالة أضحوية في أمر المعاد Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on eschatology in seven 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).

The colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-9 (f. 34v, line 29).

Colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 34v, line 29):

تمت كتابته في سنة ١١٨٢

Extent and format

Ff. 25v-34v

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 25v-34v

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:

• Avicenna, Risālah aḍḥawīyah fī amr al-maʿād , edited by Sulaymān Dunyā (Cairo: Dār al-Fikr al-ʿArabī, 1949)

Latin translation Liber de Mahad :

• Avicenna, Auicennæ philosophi præclarissimi ac medicorum principis. Compendium de anima.: De mahad. i. de dispositione, seu loco, ad quem reuertitur homo, vel anima eius post morte[m]. Aphorismi de anima. De diffinitionibus, & quæsitis. De diuisione scientiarum , translated by Andrea Alpago Bellunensis (Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1546)

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), p. 476

Subjects

Eschatology

People & organisations

Avicenna

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