8vo. 130 pp., Arabic text, some foxing throughout, title page slightly foxed, lacking last page (an exact copy is provided as facsimile), modern hard back binding, Maṭbaʻat ʼal-Jawa’ib, Qustantiniyah, first edition, 1298 A. H. / 1881.

Synopsis

Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was a philosopher, physician and scientist. He was one of the major Islamic philosophers and his philosophical writings had a profound impact on Islamic philosophy and on medieval European scholasticism. Avicenna integrated the ideas and methodologies of Aristotle, Neoplatonism, and other Greek philosophy with the monotheistic tradition of Islam. He was one of the first to apply philosophical logic to Islamic theology, and his writings provoked a strong reaction from later Islamic theologians. Nevertheless, as one of the foremost philosophers and one of the first to attempt a correlation between philosophy and religion, his works became standard textbooks in the schools of the Islamic world.” [New World Encyclopedia].
The nine letters published in this work are as follows:
I- Fi al-Hikma wa al-Tabi’iyyat, wa fi ‘Akhiriha Qissat Suleiman wa Isal translated by Hunian ibn Ishaq.
II- Fi al-’Ajram al-’Uluwiyya.
III- Fi al-Qiwa al-Insaniyya wa Idrakatiha.
IV- Fi al-Hudud.
V- Fi ‘Aqsam al-’Ulum al-’Aqliyya.
VI-Fi ‘Ithbat al-Nubu’at wa Ta’wil Rumuzihim wa ‘Amthalihim.
VII- Al-Nayruziya fi Ma’ani al-Huruf al-Hija’iyya.
VIII- Fi al-’Ahd.
IX- Fi ‘Ilm al-’Akhlaq.