Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا

Content

Persian condensed translation of a work on metaphysics 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).

The Arabic version of this text is item 35 (ff. 466v-497r) in the present manuscript.

Extent and format

Ff. 411v-413v

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

Persian and Farsi in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 411v-413v

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 of the Arabic text:

• Nūrānī, ʻAbd Allāh, al-Mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād li-al-shaykh al-raʼīs , Wisdom of Persia XXXVI (Tehran: The Institute of Islamic Studies, 1984)

French translation of the Arabic text:

• Michot, Yahya, Avicenne, Kitāb al-mabdaʻ wa-al-maʻād, Livre de la genèse et du retour, Version exploratoire (Oxford 2002) http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/works/AN195.pdf (accessed 11/11/2021)

English translation of the Arabic text of introduction only:

• 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. 20-22

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. 101 and 471-72

Subjects

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Avicenna

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Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 411v-413v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00002c> [accessed 12 July 2026]

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