Author
Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah
Publication Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 16659, ff 16v-24v
Record ID
vdc_100148048612.0x000005
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Commentary by Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭāhir ibn Zaylah (Abu Mansur al-Husayn ibn Tahir ibn Zaylah, d. 1048) on the
Epistle of Alive Son of Awake
(The Message of Hayy ibn Yaqzan) a philosophical allegory by his teacher Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). For the text commented upon, see previous item (ff. 13v-15v).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
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
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition and French translation of text commented upon, including French translation of much of Ibn Zaylah's commentary:
Rasāʾil al-shaykh al-raʾīs Abī ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā fī asrār al-ḥikmah al-mashriqīyah. Traités mystiques d'Abou Alî al-Hosain b. Abdallah b. Sînâ ou d'Avicenne
, edited by August Ferdinand Mehren, 4 fascicles (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1889-99), fasc. 1
Studies of text commented upon
Kukkonen, Taneli ‘Ḥayy b. Yaqẓān’, in
Encyclopaedia of Islam
, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30417 (accessed 16 October 2019)
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, p. 127, item PH7
