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NASIR AL-DIN ABU JA'FAR MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-TUSI (1201-74 AD): HALL MUSHKILAT AL-ISHARAT

SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD HUSAYN 'ABD AL-'AZIM KHALIL, ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED MONDAY 23 RABI' II AH 1120/1708-09 AD

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NASIR AL-DIN ABU JA'FAR MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD AL-TUSI (1201-74 AD): HALL MUSHKILAT AL-ISHARAT
SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD HUSAYN 'ABD AL-'AZIM KHALIL, ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED MONDAY 23 RABI' II AH 1120/1708-09 AD
'Resolution of Difficulties of Indications', a commentary on Ibn Sina's Kitab isharat wa tanbihat, 'Indications and Directions' and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Sharh al-isharat, Arabic manuscript on paper, 92ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. of black naskh, important words and phrases picked out in red, catchwords, text within blue and gold borders with blue outer rules, colophon signed and dated, fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes, in later brown and red morocco, brown morocco doublures
Folio 9 5/8 x 4 ¾in. (24.5 x 12cm.)

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Ibn Sina’s Isharat wa tanbihat is a philosophical treatise and is described as the last and most profound of his philosophical works. It comprises two parts, the first on logic and the second on physics and metaphysics, and was written in AH 644/1246-47 AD. For more information see Rieu, 2013, no.723, pp.493-494. There are six copies of the work, the earliest of which is dated AH 668/1270 AD (OR 10901/11) in the British Library (Stocks and Baker, 2001, p.209). For more information see Brockelmann, GAL, I, 670 – 676; S I, 924 – 33 and Boris A. Rosenfeld and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and their works (7th-19th century), Istanbul, 2003, PH4, pp.211-219.

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