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Add MS 16659, ff 575v-582v
- Record Id:
- 041-004053167
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094420
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134526429.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000032
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- Add MS 16659, ff 575v-582v
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Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī fī jawāb masāʼil anfadhahā ilayhī رسالة للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن عبد الله إلى أبي ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني في جواب مسائل أنفذها إليه
Avicenna ابن سينا
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Answers 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) to questions on natural philosophy posed by by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, d. 1048).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094420
040-002094445
041-004053167 - Is part of:
- Add MS 16637-16880 : A collection of Oriental Manuscripts, from No. 16,637 to No. 16,880 inclusive, presented by the sons of Major William Yule, of…
Add MS 16659 : Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)
Add MS 16659, ff 575v-582v : Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002094420[0020]/040-002094445[0053]/041-004053167
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 16637-16880
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- Item
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Ff. 575v-582v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000032
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1768
- End Date:
- 1769
- Date Range:
- 1182
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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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 978, pp. 447-51
- Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39
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Editions:
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Mehdi Mohaghegh, Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī va Ibn-i Sīnā, Al-Asʼilah wa-al-ajwibah (Tehran: Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1352/1974)
- Ḥiwār al-Bīrūnī wa-Ibn Sīnā, edited by ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Yāfī (Damascus: Dār al-Fikr, 2002)
Translation:
- Berjak, Rafiq and Muzaffar Iqbal, ‘Ibn Sīnā—al-Bīrūnī Correspondence’, Islam & Science 1 (2003) 91–98 and 253–60; 2 (2004) 57–62 and 181–87; and 3 (2005) 57–62 and 166–70
Partial German translation:
- Strohmaier, Gotthard, Al-Bīrūnī. In den Gärten der Wissenschaft (Leipzig: Reclam-Verlag, 1991), pp. 49–65
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. 449-50
- Strohmaier, Gotthard, ‘Avicenna und al-Bīrūnī im Dialog über aristotelische Naturphilosophie’, in Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption, edited by K. Döring and G. Wöhrle (Bamberg: Colibri Verlag, 1992), pp. 115–30; repr. in Gotthard Strohmaier, Von Demokrit bis Dante (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1996), pp. 342–57
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)