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Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r

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040-004319084
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032-003463236
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Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r
Title:

[al-Ishārah ilá ʻilm fasād aḥkām al-nujūm الإشارة إلى علم فساد أحكام النجوم]

Avicenna ابن سينا

Scope & Content:

Polemical treatise attacking the false premises of astrology, 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), ascribed in the present volume the title Risālah fī ibṭāl aḥkām al-nujūm (رسالة في إبطال أحكام النجوم, ff. 2r and 106v).

The preface mentions that the text was transmitted by Shaykh Abū al-ʿAzīz [ibn] Zaylah, from a copy in the hand of Abū Manṣūr [al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad] ibn Zaylah (أبو منصور الحسين بن محمد بن زيلة, d. 1048), a disciple of Ibn Sīnā (see below, f. 106v, lines 2-4).

Begins (f. 106v, lines 1-4):

رسالة في إبطال أحكام النجوم نسخها...

من أصل أهداه إلى الشيخ أبو العزيز زيلة رحمة الله عليه و

ذكر أنه تصنيف الشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا وكان بعض

الأصل بخط أبي منصور بن زيلة...

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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032-003463236
040-004319084
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Add MS 23403 : 23 treatises on philosophy and science, most by Ibn Sīnā

 

Add MS 23403, ff 106v-118r : [al-Ishārah ilá ʻilm fasād aḥkām al-nujūm الإشارة إلى علم فساد أحكام…
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032-003463236[0006]/040-004319084
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File
Extent:
Ff. 106v-118r
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1610
End Date:
1610
Date Range:
1019
Era:
CE
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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, VI, p. 626

Publications:

Edition:

  • Michot, Jean, Avicenne. Réfutation de l’astrologie. Édition et traduction du texte arabe, introduction, notes et lexique (Paris, Beirut: al-Bouraq, 2006)
German translation:
  • Wiedemann, Eilhard, ‘Zur Geschichte Der Astrologie’, in Das Weltall, 22-23 (1922), (9/12; 1/2): 109-14, 121-26; 1-7.

Studies:

  • Von Mehren, A., ‘Vues d'Avicenne sur L'astrologie et sur le rapport de la responsabilité humaine avec le destin’, Muséon 3 (1884), pp. 382-403
  • Reisman, David C., The Making of the Avicennan Tradition: The Transmission, Contents, and Structure of Ibn Sīnā’s al-Mubāḥaṯāt (The Discussions) (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 196-98
  • 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. 398 and 457-58
Material Type:
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
Subjects:
Astrology--Early works to 1800
Astronomy--Early works to 1800