Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān رسالة حي بن يقظان Avicenna ابن سينا
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Philosophical allegory 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).
Risālat taqsīm al-ʿulūm رسالة تقسيم العلوم Avicenna ابن سينا
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Treatise on the classification of sciences 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). Compare text 52, below (ff. 572r-574v).
Answer to a question posed by an anonymous individual 'on the meaning of the Sufi saying "he who knows the secret of predestination has become an apostate"' (عن معنى قول الصوفية من عرف سر القدر ألحد, f. 369v, lines 14-15) falsely attributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن...
al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-fayḍ al-ilāhī الرسالة المسماة بالفيض الإلهي Avicenna ابن سينا
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Treatise on the classification of phenomena including miracles, inspiration, various forms of magic, talismans and occult sciences arranged according mutual interactions between bodies and souls by Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latin...
Tarjamat risālat al-maʿād ترجمة رسالة المعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
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Persian translation of a treatise on the immortality of the soul in sixteen parts (فصول) 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 sho...
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 pres...
Risālah fī bayān al-ṣūrah al-maʻqūlah al-mukhālifah lil-ḥaqq tanfasikhu ʻan al-nafs baʻda mufāriqātih رسالة في بيان الصورة المعقولة المخالفة للحق تنفسخ عن النفس بعد مفارقته Avicenna ابن سينا
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Treatise on intelligible forms attibuted 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).
Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād رسالة المبدأ والمعاد Avicenna ابن سينا
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Treatise on metaphysics in three chapters (مقالات) 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). A Persian condensed translation is item 24, above (ff. 411v-413v).
Risālah al-manāmīyah رسالة المنامية Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá مسيحي، عيسى بن يحيى
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Treatise on dream interpretation here falsely attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is in fact by one of Ibn Sīnā's teachers, the physician ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī ...