[al-Mubāḥathāt المباحثات] Avicenna ابن سينا

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Questions on metaphysical topics posed by Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān (أبو الحسن بهمنيار بن المرزبان, d. 1066) and answered by his teacher 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 manuscript gives the title of this work as Bahmanyār's Validations (تحصيلات بهمنيار, f. 201r), but the text preserved here is extracted from the Discussions (المباحثات, see al-Mubāḥathāt , ed. Bīdārfar, pp. 85-304).

Extent and format

Ff. 201r-228v

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 201r-228v

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:

• Ibn Sīnā, al-Mubāḥathāt , edited by Muḥsin Bīdārfar (Qom: Intishārāt Baydār, 1413 [1992])

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: Brill, 2014), p. 428
• Reisman, David C., The Making of the Avicennan Tradition: The Transmission, Contents, and Structures of Ibn Sīnā's al-Mubāḥaṯāt (Leiden: Brill, 2002)

Subjects

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

People & organisations

Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-MarzubānAvicenna

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