Tarjamah-i Ishārāt ترجمۀ إشارات Avicenna ابن سينا

Content

Persian translation of the second part of the Book of Directives and Remarks (كتاب الإشارات والتنبيهات) on metaphysics by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).

Extent and format

Ff. 101r-140r

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

Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 101r-140r

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, Le livre des théorèmes et des avertissements , edited by Jacobus Forget (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1892)

English translation:

• Avicenna, Remarks and Admonitions , translated by Shams Constantine Inati (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984)

French translation:

• Avicenna, Livre des Directives et remarques. Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-al-Tanbīhāt , translated by Amélie-Marie Goichon (Beirut: Commission internationale pour la traduction des chefs-d’oeuvre; Paris: Vrin, 1951)

Studies:

• 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), p. 425
• 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. 127, item PH4

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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