[Aqsām al-ʻulūm al-ʻaqlīyah أقسام العلوم العقلية] Avicenna ابن سينا

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Treatise on the classification of the sciences 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).

Compare text 15, above (ff. 342v-345r).

Extent and format

Ff. 572r-574v

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 572r-574v

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:

• Avicenna, Tisʻ rasāʼīl fī al-ḥikmah wa-al-ṭabīʻīyat (Cairo: Maṭbaʻah Hindīyah bi-al-Mūsikī bi-Miṣr, 1326 [1908]), text 5
• Avicenna, Majmūʻat al-rasāʼil , edited by Muḥyī al-Dīn Ṣabrī al-Kurdī (Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Kurdistān al-ʻIlmīyah, 1328/[1910]), pp. 225-43
• Shams al-Dīn, ʻAbd al-Amīr Z., al-Madhhab al-tarbawī ʻinda Ibn Sīnā (Beirut: al-Shirkah al-ʻĀlamīyah lil-Kitāb, 1988), pp. 261-72

French translations:

• Anawati, Georges C., ‘Les Divisions des sciences intellectuelles d’Avicenne (traduction)’, Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicaine d’Études Orientales 13 (1977) 323–35
• Avicenna, 'Epître sur les parties des sciences intellectuelles d'Abū ʿAlī al-Husayn Ibn Sīnā', translated by R. Mimoune, in Etudes sur Avicenne , edited by Jean Jolivet and Roshdi Rashed (Paris: Belles Lettres 1984), pp. 143-51

Studies:

• 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. 416
• Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 317, pp. 126-27, item PH3

Subjects

Philosophy -- Early works to 1800

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Avicenna

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