Risālah al-miʻrājīyah رسالة المعراجية Avicenna ابن سينا

Add MS 16659, ff 373r-381v

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The record is made up of Ff. 373r-381v. It was created in 1182. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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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.

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Ff. 373r-381v
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Arabic in Arabic script
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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Add MS 16659, ff 373r-381v

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1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

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  • 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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