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Legenda and Bibliography

Last update: 18 May 2016

Āmulī 1997-8 = "Introduction", in Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ilāhiyyāt min Kitāb Al-Šifāʾ, ed. Ḥ. al-Āmulī, Maktab al-Iʿlām al-Islāmī, Markaz al-Našr, Qum 1418Hq, 1376Hš [= 1997-8].

Anawati 1978 = G. C. Anawati, “IV. La Métaphysique d’Avicenne dans le monde musulman”, in Avicenne, La Métaphysique du Shifāʾ. Livres I à V, traduction, introduction, notes et commentaires par G. C. Anawati, Vrin, Paris 1978, pp. 36-55.

Ashtiyani-Corbin 1975 = S. J. Ashtiyani, H. Corbin (eds.), Anthologie des philosophes iraniens depuis le XVIIe siecle jusqu'a nos jours. Tome II. Textes choisis et présentés par Sayyed Jalaloddin Ashtiyani. Introduction analytique par Henry Corbin, Tehran-Paris 1354Hsh/1975.

Bertolacci 2022 = A. Bertolacci, “Avicenna’s Šifāʾ and a Commentary on It in Twenty-five Volumes: the Bodleian Pococke Collection and Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī”, Penser avec Avicenne. De l’héritage grec à la réception latine, en hommage à Jules Janssens, ed. Daniel De Smet, Meryem Sebti, Peeters, Leuven-Paris-Bristol (CT) 2022, pp. 255-282.

Cairo 1960 = Ibn Sīnā, Al-Šifāʾ, al-Ilāhiyyāt (1), ed. Ǧ. Š. Qanawatī, S. Zāyid, al-Hayʾa al-ʿāmma li-šuʾūn al-maṭābiʿ al-amīriyya, Cairo 1960; Ibn Sīnā, Al-Šifāʾ, al-Ilāhiyyāt (2), ed. M. Y. Mūsā, S. Dunyā, S. Zāyid, al-Hayʾa al-ʿāmma li-šuʾūn al-maṭābiʿ al-amīriyya, Cairo 1960.

D = Fihristvārah-i Dastnivišthā-yi Īrān (Dinā), The Abridged Catalogue of Iran Manuscripts, ed. M. Dirāyatī, Kitābḫānah, Mūzih va Markaz-i Asnād-i Maǧlis-i Šūrā-yi Islāmī, vol. VI, Tehran 1389Hš/2010.

Dānišpazūh 1985 = "Introduction", in Ibn Sīnā, Al-Naǧāt min al-ġarq fī baḥr al-ḍalālāt, ed. M. T. Dānišpazūh, Dānišgah Tehran, Tehran 1985.

Endress 2006 = G. Endress, “Reading Avicenna in the Madrasa. Intellectual Genealogies and Chains of Transmission of Philosophy and the Sciences in the Islamic East”, in Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy. From the Many to the One: Essays in Celebration of Richard M. Frank, ed. J. E. Montgomery, Peeters, Leuven-Paris-Dudley (Ma) 2006, pp. 371-423.

Esmaeili 2014-15 = M. J. Esmaeili, “The Commentary Tradition on the Ilāhiyyāt of the Shifāʾ. An Historical and Bibliographical Survey”, Sophia Perennis, 24, 2014-15, pp. 110-131.

Gacek 1991 = A. Gacek, Arabic Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Union Catalogue, McGill Univesrity Libraries, Montreal 1991.

Ḥabībī 2003 = "Introduction", in Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī (Mullā Ṣadrā, 979-1050Hq), Šarḥ va-Taʿlīqat Ṣadr al-mutaʾallihīna bar Ilāhiyyāt-e Šifāʾ-e Šayḫ al-raʾīs Abū ʿAlī ibn Sīnā, 2 vols, ed. and annot. by Najafqulī Ḥabībī, under the direction of Muḥammad Khamaneʾī, Intishārāt-e Bunyād Ḥikmat Islāmī Ṣadrā, Tehran 1382Hš/2003.

Ibn Sīnā 1885 = Al-Ilāhiyyāt min al-Šifāʾ li-Šayḫ al-Raʾīs Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā maʿa taʿlīqāt, ed. ʿA. al-K. al-Šarīf al-Šīrāzī, Madrasa Dār al-Funūn, Tehran 1303Hš/1885, vol. I, pp. 266-567.

Ibn Sīnā 2004 = Ibn Sīnā, Al-Šifāʾ (al-Ilāhiyyāt), with Marginal Notes by Mullà Ṣadrà and others, ed. Ḥ. Nāǧī Iṣfahānī, Society for the Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, Institute of Islamic Studies of Tehran, McGill University, Tehran 1383Hš/2004.

Janssens 2012 = J. Janssens, "Al-Lawkarī’s Reception of Ibn Sīnā’s Ilāhiyyāt", in The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics, ed. D. N. Hasse, A. Bertolacci, De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, pp. 7-26.

M = Y. Mahdavī, Fihrist-i nusḫahā-yi muṣannafāt-i Ibn-i Sīnā, Intišārāt-i Dānišgāh-yi Tihrān, Tehran 1333Hš/1954, pp. 172-4.

Mohaghegh 1986 = "Introduction", in Mahdī ibn Abī Ḏarr al-Narāqī, Šarḥ al-Ilāhiyyāt min Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, ed. M. Mohaghegh, Tehran 1365Hš/1986, pp. 1-16 (in Farsi).

Nāǧī Iṣfahānī 2004 = "Introduction", in Ibn Sīnā, Al-Šifāʾ (al-Ilāhiyyāt), with Marginal Notes by Mullà Ṣadrà and others, ed. Ḥ. Nāǧī Iṣfahānī, Society for the Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, Institute of Islamic Studies of Tehran, McGill University, Tehran 1383Hš/2004.

Nasr-Aminrazavi 2015 = An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Volume 5: From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century, ed. S. H. Nasr, M. Aminrazavi, I.B. Tauris Publishers in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London 2015.

Narāqī 1986 = Ḥ. Narāqī, "Life and Works of Mawlà Muḥammad Mahdī ibn Abī Ḏarr Narāqī al-Kašānī", in Mahdī ibn Abī Ḏarr al-Narāqī, Šarḥ al-Ilāhiyyāt min Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, ed. M. Mohaghegh, Tehran 1365Hš/1986, pp. 17-33 (in Farsi).

Panzeca 2017 = I. Panzeca, "On the Persian Translations of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt", Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale, 28, 2017, pp. 553-567.

I. Panzeca, “Traditions, Transmissions, Translations: an Overview of the Commentaries on Ibn Sīnā’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ Preserved in India”, Palermo Occasional Papers, 0, 2022, pp. 9-64.

Pourjavady 2011 = R. Pourjavady, Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran. Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2011.

Pourjavady 2018 = Philosophy in Qajar Iran, ed. R. Pourjavady, Brill, Leiden 2018.

Rizvi 2020 = S. Rizvi, “An Avicennian Engagement with and Appropriation of Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636). The Case of Mahdī Narāqī (d. 1209/1795)”, Oriens, 48, 2020, pp. 219-249.

Saatchian 2009-10 = F. Saatchian, "Bio-bibliographische Daten und Gedankengut des Šams-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ḫafrīs, Philosoph und Astronom der schirasischen Schule des 10./16. Jahrhundert", Iranistik, 6.2, 2009/10, pp. 113-158.

Wisnovsky 2013 = R. Wisnovsky, “Avicenna’s Islamic Reception”, in Interpreting Avicenna. Critical Essays, ed. P. Adamson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, pp. 190-213.