Danishnama

Daneshnameh-ye Alai (Persian: دانشنامه علایی), also transcribed as Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī is an 11th-century Persian treatise by Avicenna.^[1]

Title

Daneshnameh means book of science in Persian and Alai refers to the name of Prince Ala'odowleh who supported the writing. The book is also known as "Ḥikmat-e 'Alā'ī".

Topic

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

Daneshnameh-ye Alai was translated into Arabic under the title "Maqāṣed al-falāsefa" by Mohammad Gazali 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

^ "Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī". Chāpkhāna-yi Markazī. 1936.
^ "AVICENNA xi. Persian Works". Encyclopaedia Iranica. 1987.
^ "Parviz Morewedge (tr.): The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā). (Persian Heritage Series, No. 13.) xxvii, 336 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul". Cambridge. 1973.

External links

[1] "Dānishnāma-yi ʻAlāʼī". Chāpkhāna-yi Markazī. 1936.

[2] "AVICENNA xi. Persian Works". Encyclopaedia Iranica. 1987.

[3] "Parviz Morewedge (tr.): The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sīnā). (Persian Heritage Series, No. 13.) xxvii, 336 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul". Cambridge. 1973.

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