al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-fayḍ al-ilāhī الرسالة المسماة بالفيض الإلهي Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on the classification of phenomena including miracles, inspiration, various forms of magic, talismans and occult sciences arranged according mutual interactions between bodies and souls 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). The treatise, which is also known as The Treatise of Actions and Affections (الرسالة في الأفعال والانفعالات) is perhaps part of Ibn Sīnā’s fragmentarily preserved Book of Piety and Sin (كتاب البر والإثم, see Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition [2014], pp. 498 and 500).

Extent and format

Ff. 370v-373r

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 370v-373r

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 fī al-fiʻl wa al-infiʻāl wa-aqsāmihimā’, in Majmūʿ rasāʾil al-shaykh al-raʾīs Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā al-Bukhārī , ed. by Zayn-al-ʿĀbidīn al-Mūsawī (Hyderabad: Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmāniyah, 1353–1354 [1934–1935])

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. 500

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-fayḍ al-ilāhī الرسالة المسماة بالفيض الإلهي Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 370v-373r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000013> [accessed 4 July 2026]

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