Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on metaphysics in three chapters (مقالات) 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).

A Persian condensed translation is item 24, above (ff. 411v-413v).

Extent and format

Ff. 466v-497r

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 466v-497r

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 of the Arabic text:

• Nūrānī, ʻAbd Allāh, al-Mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād lil-shaykh al-raʼīs , Wisdom of Persia XXXVI (Tehran: The Institute of Islamic Studies, 1984)

French translation of the Arabic text:

• Michot, Yahya, Avicenne, Kitāb al-mabdaʻ wa-al-maʻād, Livre de la genèse et du retour, Version exploratoire (Oxford 2002) http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/works/AN195.pdf (accessed 11/11/2021)

English translation of the Arabic text (introduction only):

• 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), pp. 20-22

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), pp. 101 and 471-72

Subjects

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

People & organisations

Avicenna

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