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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Metaphysics--Early works to 1800

11. Add MS 23403, ff 139v-145r

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Add MS 23403, ff 139v-145r
Title:
[Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubuwwah رسالة في إثبات النبوة]
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the elimination of doubts concerning prophecy, in which the divine inspiration of prophets is explained using philosophical arguments. The text, which was composed upon the request of an unknown individual experiencing a crisis of scepticism, is ascribed in the present volume the alt...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 139v-145r

12. Add MS 23403, ff 191r-193v

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Add MS 23403, ff 191r-193v
Title:
Risālah fī ithbāt al-Ṣāniʻ رسالة في إثبات الصانع Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Treatise affirming the existence of the Creator, in three chapters (فصول), without introduction, attributed to Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The transcription of the present text together with those p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Shaʿbān 1019
Extent:
Ff. 191r-193v

13. Add MS 23403, ff 199v-201r

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Add MS 23403, ff 199v-201r
Title:
Risālat al-ʻarūs رسالة العروس Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:
Metaphysical notes on the nature of God as the creator of the universe and of finite things, by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The work is sometimes transmitted as part of a group of texts extant in va...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 199v-201r

14. Add MS 23403, ff 224r-225r

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Add MS 23403, ff 224r-225r
Title:
Risālah fī wujūd al-jawhar رسالة في وجود الجوهر Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Short treatise demonstrating the existence of the Universal Intellect (العقل الكل), entitled Risālah fī wujūd al-jawhar (f. 224r, line 1), attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274 [see Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Ayasofya 4862, ff. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 224r-225r

15. Add MS 23403, ff 225r-226v

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Add MS 23403, ff 225r-226v
Title:
Mukhtaṣar fī qawl al-nafs li-Arisṭū مختصر قول في النفس لأرسطو Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
Scope & Content:
A summary of the seven principles concerning the soul, attributed to Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) While Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا; Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), author of other works in the present volume, produced both a lost Comm...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1019
Extent:
Ff. 225r-226v