ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN IBN 'ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428/1037 AD): KITAB ISHARAT WA TANBIHAT
ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN IBN 'ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428/1037 AD): KITAB ISHARAT WA TANBIHAT

NEAR EAST, 13TH CENTURY

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ABU 'ALI AL-HUSAYN IBN 'ABDULLAH IBN SINA (AVICENNA) (D. AH 428/1037 AD): KITAB ISHARAT WA TANBIHAT
NEAR EAST, 13TH CENTURY
The Book of Hints and Remarks, a well-known treatise on philosophy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 151ff. plus 2 fly leaves, each folio with 17ll. of sepia naskh, important words highlighted in red, added date in colophon, in red stamped morocco binding with slip case
Folio 5 7/8 x 3 1/8in. (14.3 x 7.8cm.)

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Ibn Sina (known in the west as Avicenna) was a great physician and philosopher who was born in Afshana near Bukhara in 980 AD and died in Hamadan in 1037 AD.

The Kitab Isharat wa tanbihat is a treatise on philosophy (B.A. Rosenfeld and E.Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers and other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7-19th Century), Istanbul, 2003, no. 317, PH4, pp. 122-28). It was translated into French by A.M. Goichon, Le livre des directives et remarques, Paris, 1951.

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