Risālah ilá tilmīdhihi Abī ʻUbayd al-Jūzjānī رسالة إلى تلميذه أبي عبيد جوزجاني Avicenna ابن سينا

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Short epistle on the return of the soul by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) addressed according to the title in the present copy to his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني), thought to have originally been addressed to his other student, Abū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān (أبو الحسن بهمنيار بن المرزبان, d. 1066). The text is also known as The Return Concerning the Soul and Emanation (المعاودة في أمر النفس والفيض) and That Which is Able to Be (ممكن الوجود).

Extent and format

Ff. 410v-411r

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 410v-411r

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

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. 491

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

People & organisations

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid JūzjānīAbū al-Ḥasan Bahmanyār ibn al-MarzubānAvicenna

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Risālah ilá tilmīdhihi Abī ʻUbayd al-Jūzjānī رسالة إلى تلميذه أبي عبيد جوزجاني Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 410v-411r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x00002d> [accessed 3 July 2026]

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