Khuṭbat al-shaykh al-raʼīs hujjat al-ḥaqq Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā qaddasa Allāhu rūḥahu wa-qad awrada fīhā maʻná al-ilāhīyāt wa-al-riyāḍīyāt wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt ʻalá aḥsan ʻibāratin wa-aṣaḥḥahā خطبة الشيخ الرئيس حجة الحق أبي علي بن سينا قدس الله روحه وقد أورد فيها معنى الإلهيات والرياضيات والطبيعيات على أحسن عبارة وأصحها Avicenna ابن سينا

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Sermon on the oneness (توحيد) of God in rhyming prose (سجع) 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. 559v-560v

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 559v-560v

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 and translation:

• Akhtar, Kazi Ahmad Mian, 'A Tract of Avicenna (Translated by Umar Khayyam)', Islamic Culture 9 (1935) 218–33

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. 509

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Khuṭbat al-shaykh al-raʼīs hujjat al-ḥaqq Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā qaddasa Allāhu rūḥahu wa-qad awrada fīhā maʻná al-ilāhīyāt wa-al-riyāḍīyāt wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt ʻalá aḥsan ʻibāratin wa-aṣaḥḥahā خطبة الشيخ الرئيس حجة الحق أبي علي بن سينا قدس الله روحه وقد أورد فيها معنى الإلهيات والرياضيات والطبيعيات على أحسن عبارة وأصحها Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 559v-560v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000025> [accessed 16 July 2026]

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