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'''''Daneshnameh-ye Alai''''' ({{lang-fa|دانشنامه علایی|Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī}} is an 11th-century |
The '''''Daneshnameh-ye Alai''''' ({{lang-fa|دانشنامه علایی|Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī}} is an 11th-century [[Early New Persian]] work by [[Avicenna]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48193057|title=Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī|date=1936|publisher=Chāpkhāna-yi Markazī|oclc=48193057}}</ref> |
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Ibn Sina dedicated the ''Danishnama'' or "Book of Science" to the [[Kakuyids|Kakuyid ruler]] [[Ala al-Dawla Muhammad]], who supported his work. The book is also known as the ''Ḥikmat-i ʿAlā'ī'' |
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The ''Danishnama'' was translated into [[Arabic]] under the title ''Maqāṣad al-falāsafa'' by [[al-Ghazali]] in 1111, into French by M. Achena and H. Massé, under the title "Le livre de science", 2 vols., 1955–58 and into English by P. Morewedge, entitled ''The Metaphysica of Avicenna: A Critical Translation-Commentary and Analysis of the Fundamental Arguments in Avicenna’s Metaphysica in the Dānish Nāma-i ʿAlāʾī'' in 1973.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/parviz-morewedge-tr-the-metaphysica-of-avicenna-ibn-sina-persian-heritage-series-no-13-xxvii-336-pp-london-routledge-and-kegan-paul-1973-5/9A3510FF73AD3ABB3E1AE4A0D1C40590|title=Parviz Morewedge (tr.): The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā). (Persian Heritage Series, No. 13.) xxvii, 336 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|date=1973|volume=37|issue=2|pages=473–474|publisher=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/S0041977X00136572|last1=Brows|first1=Vivian|s2cid=161547495 }}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 05:25, 14 February 2024
The Daneshnameh-ye Alai (Persian: دانشنامه علایی, romanized: Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī is an 11th-century Early New Persian work by Avicenna.[1]
Title
[edit]Ibn Sina dedicated the Danishnama or "Book of Science" to the Kakuyid ruler Ala al-Dawla Muhammad, who supported his work. The book is also known as the Ḥikmat-i ʿAlā'ī
Topic
[edit]Daneshnameh-ye Alai is a comprehensive treatise on seven sciences grouped in four sections: logic, metaphysics, natural science and mathematics.[2] The original section on mathematics was lost in Avicenna's lifetime.
Translation
[edit]The Danishnama was translated into Arabic under the title Maqāṣad al-falāsafa by al-Ghazali in 1111, into French by M. Achena and H. Massé, under the title "Le livre de science", 2 vols., 1955–58 and into English by P. Morewedge, entitled The Metaphysica of Avicenna: A Critical Translation-Commentary and Analysis of the Fundamental Arguments in Avicenna’s Metaphysica in the Dānish Nāma-i ʿAlāʾī in 1973.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī. Chāpkhāna-yi Markazī. 1936. OCLC 48193057.
- ^ "AVICENNA xi. Persian Works". Encyclopaedia Iranica. 1987.
- ^ Brows, Vivian (1973). "Parviz Morewedge (tr.): The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā). (Persian Heritage Series, No. 13.) xxvii, 336 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 37 (2). Cambridge: 473–474. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00136572. S2CID 161547495.