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Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
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Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ, book X (prophecy, law and the city)الإلهيات من الشفاء، المقالة العاشرةIbn Sīnā (Avicenna)Metaphysics and cosmology5th century AHArabicListed only

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Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ, book X (prophecy, law and the city)

الإلهيات من الشفاء، المقالة العاشرة

al-Ilāhiyyāt min al-Shifāʾ, maqāla 10

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) (c. 370–428/980–1037)

Philosophy · Metaphysics and cosmology · Arabic · 5th century AH · Listed only

The closing book of the Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ: prophecy, the law-giver and the ordering of the city; his short Risāla fī l-siyāsa is a separate work.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1020s, Hamadhan, Isfahan (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Cairo ed. (Mūsā, Dunyā, Zāyid 1960) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Michael Marmura, The Metaphysics of the Healing (BYU 2005) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
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