Risālah al-miʻrājīyah رسالة المعراجية Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on the spiritual interpretation of the Prophet Muḥammad's (محمد, d. 632) ascent (معراج) attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) but not appearing in the lists of his works given by near contemporaries or later Arabic biobibliographers.

Extent and format

Ff. 373r-381v

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 373r-381v

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

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Avicenna

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