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Add MS 23403, ff 4v-8v

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040-004319078

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032-003463236

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Add MS 23403, ff 4v-8v

Title:

Tadhkirah li-Ibn Sīnā تذكرة لابن سينا

Jūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد

Scope & Content:

Biography of Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), with a list of his works (ff. 6r-7v).

The text is a paraphrased version of the widely-circulated autobiography by Ibn Sīnā, completed by his pupil ʻAbd al-Wāḥid al-Juzjani (عبد الواحد الجوزجاني, active 11th century) after his master’s death. The first half of the present text corresponds to the abbreviated and extended version of the biography transmitted by Ẓāhir al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Qāsim Zayd al-Bayhāqī (ظاهر الدين علي بن أبي القاسم زيد البيهقي, d. 1174), while the bibliography provided corresponds to a later, extended version (see 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], pp. 392-400 on the complexities of Ibn Sīnā's bibliographies).

A marginal collation note in Persian appears on f. 5r.

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Oriental Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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032-003463236
040-004319078

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Add MS 23403 : 23 treatises on philosophy and science, most by Ibn Sīnā

Add MS 23403, ff 4v-8v : Tadhkirah li-Ibn Sīnā تذكرة لابن سيناJūzjānī, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid جوزجاني، عبد الواحد

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Ff. 4v-8v

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Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1610

End Date:

1610

Date Range:

1019

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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 1349, I, p. 625

Publications:

Editions:

Bayḥaqī, ʿAlī ibn Zayd, Kitāb Tatimmat Ṣiwān al-ḥikmah, Fasc. 1, edited by Muḥammad Shafīʿ (Lahore: Punjab University Publications, 1935), pp. 38–62 (biography); 187-90 (bibliography)
Bayḥaqī, ʿAlī ibn Zayd, Tārīkh ḥukamāʾ al-Islām, taʾlīf Ẓuhayr al-Dīn al-Bayhaqī, edited by Mamdūḥ Ḥasan Muḥammad (al-Qāhirah: Maktabat al-Thaqāfah al-Dīnīyah, 1996), pp. 25-81

Translations (not of al-Bayhaqī's version):

Arberry, A. J., 'Autobiography of Avicenna' and 'Biography of Avicenna', in Avicenna on Theology (London: John Murray, 1951), pp. 9-24
'[11.13] al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs' Ibn Sīnā', in E. Savage-Smith, S. Swain, G.J. van Gelder eds., A Literary History of Medicine (Leiden 2020 [https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:arabicLit:0668IbnAbiUsaibia.Tabaqatalatibba.lhom-tr-eng1:11.11-11.15], accessed 14 October 2022)
Gutas, Dimitri, ‘Text 3. The Autobiography’, in 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), pp. 10-19
Gohlman, William E., The Life of Ibn Sīnā: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974)

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), pp. 11, 392-400 (esp. 399 on the Extended Bibliography)
Meyerhof, Max, 'Alī al-Bayhaqī's Tatimmat Siwān al-Hikma: A Biographical Work on Learned Men of the Islam', in Osiris 8 (1948), pp. 122-217, esp. pp. 149-50
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, HS1, p. 123
Dhanani, Alnoor, 'Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 604-05

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Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781
Bayhaqī, ʿAlī ibn Zayd, d 1169 or 1170
Jūzjānī, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, fl 11th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/63866503(Personal)

Subjects:

Biographies