Risālah fī bayān al-ṣūrah al-maʻqūlah al-mukhālifah lil-ḥaqq tanfasikhu ʻan al-nafs baʻda mufāriqātih رسالة في بيان الصورة المعقولة المخالفة للحق تنفسخ عن النفس بعد مفارقته Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on intelligible forms attibuted to 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. 438v-439v

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 438v-439v

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:

• Michot, Jean R., '"L’épître sur la disparition des formes intelligibles après la mort" d’Avicenne. Édition critique, traduction et index', Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 29 (1987) 152–70

Translations:

• Michot, Jean R., 'Avicenna’s ‘Letter on the Disappearance of the Vain Intelligible Forms after Death.’ Presentation and Translation', Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 27 (1985), 94-103
• Michot, Jean R., '"L’épître sur la disparition des formes intelligibles après la mort" d’Avicenne. Édition critique, traduction et index', Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 29 (1987) 152–70

Studies:

• Black, Deborah, 'Avicenna and the Ontological and Epistemic Status of Fictional Beings', Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 8 (1997) 425–53
• 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. 456

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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Risālah fī bayān al-ṣūrah al-maʻqūlah al-mukhālifah lil-ḥaqq tanfasikhu ʻan al-nafs baʻda mufāriqātih رسالة في بيان الصورة المعقولة المخالفة للحق تنفسخ عن النفس بعد مفارقته Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 438v-439v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000015> [accessed 25 July 2026]

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