Tarjamat risālat al-nafs ترجمة رسالة النفس Avicenna ابن سينا

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Shorter recension of the Persian translation of a treatise on the immortality of the soul in sixteen parts (فصل) 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). The Arabic text is item 34 (ff. 449v-466r) in the present manuscript and a longer recension of the Persian version directly precedes this text (item 21, ff. 381v-402r).

Extent and format

Ff. 403v-410r

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 403v-410r

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 original Arabic text:

• Avicenna, Aḥwāl an-nafs , ed. by Aḥmad Fuʾād al-Ahwānī (Cairo: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Kutub al-ʿArabīyah, 1371/1952), pp. 43–142

Translations of individual parts of the original Arabic text:

• Part One: Michot, Jean R., 'Avicenne, La définition de l’âme. Section I de l’Épître des états de l’âme. Traduction critique et lexique," in Langages et philosophie: hommage à Jean Jolivet , ed. by A. de Libera, A. Elamrani-Jamal and A. Galonnier (Paris: J. Vrin, 1997), pp. 239–56
• Part Ten: Monnot, Guy, 'La transmigration et l’immortalité', Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicaine d’Études Orientales 14 (1980) 156–58
• Part Thirteen: Michot, Jean R., 'Prophétie et divination selon Avicenne. Présentation, essai de traduction critique et index de l’"Épître de l’âme de la sphère"', Revue Philosophique de Louvain 83 (1985) 507–35
• Part Sixteen: 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. 22-24

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. 102-03 and 477-79

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

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Avicenna

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