Kitāb al-urjūzah fī al-manṭiq كتاب الأرجوزة في المنطق Avicenna ابن سينا

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Didactic poem on logic 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).

Extent and format

Ff. 565v-568r

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 565v-568r

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

Editions:

• Schmoelders, Augustus, D ocumenta philosophiae Arabum (Bonn: Eduard Weber, 1836), pp. 11-23 (Arabic numbers)
• Manṭiq al-mashriqīyīn wa-al-Qaṣīdah al-muzdawijah, taṣnīf al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī Ibn Sīnā (Cairo: al-Maktabah al-Salafīyah, 1910), pp. 1-18

Translation:

• Schmoelders, Augustus, Documenta philosophiae Arabum (Bonn: Eduard Weber, 1836), pp. 26-42

Partial translation:

• Gutas, Dimitri, ‘Aspects of Literary Form and Genre in Arabic Logical Works’, in Glosses and Commentaries on Aristotelian Logical Texts , Warburg Institute, Surveys and Texts XXIII, edited by Charles Burnett (London: The Warburg Institute, 1993), pp. 29-76, on pp. 63-64

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: 2014), p. 436

Subjects

Logic -- Early works to 1800Didactic poetry

People & organisations

Avicenna

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Kitāb al-urjūzah fī al-manṭiq كتاب الأرجوزة في المنطق Avicenna ابن سينا, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 565v-568r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000035> [accessed 18 July 2026]

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