Kitāb ḥudūth al-ḥarf كتاب حدوث الحرف Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on Arabic phonetics in six parts (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. 556v-559v

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 556v-559v

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, Risālat Asbāb ḥudūth al-ḥurūf, edited by Muḥammad Ḥassān al-Ṭayyān and Yaḥyá Mīr ʻAlam (Damascus: Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah, 1983)

Translations:

Sara, Solomon I., A Treatise on Arabic Phonetics, LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 04 (München: LINCOM GmbH, 2009)

Semaan, Khalil I., Arabic Phonetics. Ibn Sīnā’s Risālah on the Points of Articulation of the Speech-sounds (Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1963)

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. 442-43

Subjects

Arabic language -- Phonetics

People & organisations

Avicenna

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