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The record is made up of Ff. 519v-520v. It was created in 1182. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Qurʼānic commentary on Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (Q 112) 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).

Compare text 40, above (ff. 516v-518r).

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Ff. 519v-520v
Written in
Arabic in Arabic script
Type
Manuscript item

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted

Archive reference
Add MS 16659, ff 519v-520v

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Date(s)
1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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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:

  • al-Tafsīr al-qurʼānī wa-al-lughah al-ṣūfīyah fī falsafat Ibn Sīnā , edited by Ḥasan ʻĀṣī (Beirut: al-Muʼassasah al-Jāmiʻīyah, 1402/1983), pp. 104–13

Study and edition:

  • al-Khaṭīb, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 'Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ lil-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā', al-Machriq 75 (2001) 383–433 and 76 (2002) 121–200

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. 506
Subjects
Qurʼan Hermeneutics
People & organisations
Avicenna

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Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ تفسير سورة الإخلاص Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 519v-520v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000020> [accessed 30 July 2026]

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