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The record is made up of Ff. 419v-421r. It was created in 1182. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Short treatise on ethics 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).

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Ff. 419v-421r
Written in
Arabic in Arabic script
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Manuscript item

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Add MS 16659, ff 419v-421r

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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:

  • Shams al-Dīn, ʻAbd al-Amīr Z., al-Madhhab al-tarbawī ʻinda Ibn Sīnā (Beirut: al-Shirkah al-ʻālamīyah lil-Kitāb, 1988), pp. 369-77

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. 498-99

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Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq رسالة في علم الأخلاق Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 419v-421r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00002a> [accessed 10 May 2024]

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