Author
Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh
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 575v-582v
Record ID
vdc_100148048612.0x000032
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Answers by Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Ibn Sina, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037) to questions on natural philosophy posed by by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, d. 1048).
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
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