Danishnama
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.