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Add MS 23403, ff 139v-145r
- Record Id:
- 040-004319088
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003463236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161562190.0x000001
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 23403, ff 139v-145r
- Title:
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[Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubuwwah رسالة في إثبات النبوة]
- Scope & Content:
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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 alternative title Risālah fī izālat al-shukūk fī al-nubūwwah (رسالة في إزالة الشكوك في النبوة, ff. 2r and 139v, line 2-3 and margin).
Although usually 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), this treatise is dismissed as inauthentic by Gutas [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. 485-89].
The work is followed by a page of text entitled Faṣl fī al-saʿādah (فصل في السعادة, f. 145v).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003463236
040-004319088 - Is part of:
- Add MS 23403 : 23 treatises on philosophy and science, most by Ibn Sīnā
Add MS 23403, ff 139v-145r : [Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubuwwah رسالة في إثبات النبوة] - Hierarchy:
- 032-003463236[0010]/040-004319088
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 23403
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Ff. 139v-145r
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1610
- End Date:
- 1610
- Date Range:
- 1019
- Era:
- CE
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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, X, p. 626
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Edition:
- Ibn Sīnā, Fī ithbāt al-nabuwwāt, edited by Michael E. Marmura (Bayrūt: Dār al-Nahār, 1968)
Translation:
- Marmura, M., 'On the proof of prophecies and the interpretation of the prophet's symbols and metaphor' in Lerner, Ralph, and Muhsin Mahdi, Medieval political philosophy: a sourcebook (New York: The Free Press, 1963), pp. 112-21
Studies:
- Marmura, Michael E., ‘Avicenna's Psychological Proof of Prophecy’, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 22 (1963), pp. 49-56
- 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. 485-89
- 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:
- Metaphysics--Early works to 1800