SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR BIN 'ABD AL-LATIF AL-HILALI AL-JILANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED TUESDAY 14 MUHARRAM AH 1074/18 AUGUST 1663

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A COMMENTARY ON IBN SINA (D. 1037 AD)'S KITAB AL-ISHARAT WA AL-TANBIHAT
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR BIN 'ABD AL-LATIF AL-HILALI AL-JILANI, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED TUESDAY 14 MUHARRAM AH 1074/18 AUGUST 1663
On philosophy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 267ff., each folio with 21ll. of rounded black naskh script, titles and important words in red, occasional phrases overlined in red, with catchwords, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and text within gold and polychrome headpieces, with occasional marginal notes, beginning with seal impression and later added notes, in plain brown morocco binding
9 ¾ x 5 1/8in. (24.8 x 13.5cm.)

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Please note that this is a commentary on Ibn Sina's Kitab al-Isharat and not Kitab al-Isharat itself.

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The Kitab isharat wa tanbihat (the Book of Remarks and Admonitions) is a treatise on philosophy (B.A. Rosenfeld and E.Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers and other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7-19th Century), Istanbul, 2003, no. 317, PH4, pp. 122-28). It was translated into French by A.M. Goichon, Le livre des directives et remarques, Paris, 1951.

Nasir al-Din Tusi (d. 1274 AD), the famous Persian polymath, composed a famous commentary on al-isharat wa al-tanbihat during his stay with the Isma'ilis of Alamut. It is a major contribution to Ibn Sina's philosophy and its interpretation. It was intended, at least in part, as a response to al-Razi's commentary on the Isharat.

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