Tisʿ rasāʾil fī al-ḥikmah wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt
By: Avicenna
Contributors: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809?-873, translator; Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282
Series: Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library; Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Qusṭanṭīnīyah
Language: ara
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Biography; Islamic philosophy; Astronomy; Islamic ethics; Science; Prophecy; Alphabet; Islam
Other titles: Qiṣṣat Salāmān wa-Absāl.; Risālah fī al-ḥudūd.; Risālah fī al-ʿahd.; Risālah fī al-ajrām al-ʻulwīyah.; Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq.; Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubuwwāt wa-taʼwīl rumūzihim wa-amthālihim.; Risālah fī al-quwá al-insānīyah wa-idrākātihā.; Risālah al-nayrūzīyah fī maʻānī al-ḥurūf al-hijāʼīyah.; Risālah fī aqsām al-ʻulūm al-ʻaqlīyah.; Ṭabīʿīyāt min ʻuyūn al-ḥikmah li-ibn Sīnā.
Description: [A collection of nine philosophical treatises by Avicenna, namely : (1) the introductory portion of the second part, treating of physics, of his system of speculative philosophy, entitled ʿUyūn al-ḥikmah ; (2) al-Risālah fī al-ajrām al-samāwīyah, on the nature of the heavenly bodies ; (3) al-Risālah fī al-qūwah al-insānīyah, on the human faculties ; (4) Kitāb al-ḥudūd, a collection of scientific definitions ; (5) Taqāsīm al- ḥikmah wa-al-'ulūm, on the classification of the sciences ; (6) al-Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubūwah, on prophecy ; (7) al-Risālah al-nayrūzīyah, on the hidden meaning of the letters of the alphabet which are prefixed to some of the Surahs of the Koran ; (8) al-Risālah fī al-ʿahd, on the duties of man towards God ; (9) al-Risālah fī al-akhlāq, an outline of a system of ethics. To which are added the story of Salāmān and Absāl, an allegory translated from the Greek by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, and a life of Avicenna from the biographical dictionary of Ibn Khallikān.].
Notes: Reproduction of the original from The British Library.

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Text in Arabic ; translated from the original Greek.
Table of contents: title: ‘Uyūn al-ḥikmah; title: Risālah fī al-ajrām al-samāwīyah; title: Risālah fī al-qūwah al-insānīyah; title: Kitāb al-ḥudūd; title: Taqāsīm al-ḥikmah wa-al-ʿulūm; title: Risālah fī ithbāt al-nubūwah; title: Risālah al-nayrūzīyah; title: Risālah fī al-ʿahd; title: Risālah fī al-akhlāq; title: Qiṣṣat Salāmān wa-Absāl; title: Tarjamat ḥāl ibn Sīnā manqūlah min tārīkh ibn Khallikān.