Arabic Readings
Arabic Readings
Readings will come from selections from Avicenna’s De Anima and Metaphysics.
The Metaphysics of The Healing: a parallel English-Arabic Text, Michael E. Marmura, tr.
Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2005. There are also two Italian translations and a French translation of this.
Avicenna’s De Anima (Arabic text), being the Psychological Part of the Kitâb al-Shifâ’,
Fazlur Rahman, ed. London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Latin version in
Avicenna, Liber De Anima, seu Sextus De Naturalibus. Simone Van Riet, ed. Louvain: Éditions orientalistes; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968-72
French translation of Arabic in v.2 of:
Psychologie d’Ibn Sina, Jan Bakos, ed. & tr. (Prague: Editions de Académe Tchécoslovaque des Sciences, 1956).
At present there is no English translation available, though Michael Marmura has a draft translation in progress.