Risālah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mabdaʼan zamānīyan رسالة في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا Avicenna ابن سينا

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Philosophical discussion of the eternity of the world in eleven sections (فصول) 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).

Extent and format

Ff. 508v-515v

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 508v-515v

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

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Edition:

• Ḥudūth al-ʻālam: al-munaẓarah bayna Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī wa-Farīd al-Dīn al-Ghīlānī, Afḍal al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī ibn Ghīlān. al-Ḥukūmah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mabdaʼan wa-zamāniyan, Abū ʻAlī ibn Sīnā , edited by Mahdī Muḥaqqiq (Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1377/1998), pp. 131-52

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. 445-46

Subjects

Physics--Early works to 1800Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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Risālah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn lil-māḍī mabdaʼan zamānīyan رسالة في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 508v-515v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00001c> [accessed 3 July 2026]

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