AUTHORS: Panzeca I.,

WORK PACKAGE: WP4 DamSym

URL: https://helvia.uco.es/xmlui/handle/10396/36078

Keywords: Avicenna; Arabic; Persian; Manuscripts; Origin; Destination

Abstract

Avicenna’s œuvre manifested its influence and strength through the activity of exegesis and translation of his texts, as well as through their wide dissemination in terms of copying, transmission, and circulation over the centuries. His ‘minor works’ concerning the origin (mabdaʾ), or the principle of the rational soul, and on its destination (maʿād), the place where it will return after death, are an example of this sophisticated process. This article will focus mainly on the substantial manuscript tradition of these authentic or spurious treatises, both in Arabic and Persian.