Editing Avicenna (section)

== List of works ==
The treatises of Avicenna influenced later Muslim thinkers in many areas including theology, philology, mathematics, astronomy, physics and music. His works numbered almost 450 volumes on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 volumes of his surviving works concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.<ref name="MacTutor Biography|id=Avicenna" /> His most famous works are ''The Book of Healing'', and ''The Canon of Medicine''.

Avicenna wrote at least one treatise on alchemy, but several others have been falsely attributed to him. His ''Logic'', ''Metaphysics'', ''Physics'', and ''De Caelo'', are treatises giving a synoptic view of [[Aristotelianism|Aristotelian doctrine]],<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Avicenna|volume=3|pages=62–63}}</ref> though ''Metaphysics'' demonstrates a significant departure from the brand of [[Neoplatonism]] known as Aristotelianism in Avicenna's world; Arabic philosophers{{who|date=February 2015}}{{year needed|date=February 2015}} have hinted at the idea that Avicenna was attempting to "re-Aristotelianise" Muslim philosophy in its entirety, unlike his predecessors, who accepted the conflation of Platonic, Aristotelian, Neo- and Middle-Platonic works transmitted into the Muslim world.

The ''Logic'' and ''Metaphysics'' have been extensively reprinted, the latter, e.g., at Venice in 1493, 1495 and 1546. Some of his shorter essays on medicine, logic, etc., take a poetical form (the poem on logic was published by Schmoelders in 1836).<ref>Thought Experiments: Popular Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Physics, Ethics, Computer Science & Mathematics by Fredrick Kennard, p. 115</ref> Two encyclopedic treatises, dealing with philosophy, are often mentioned. The larger, ''[[The Book of Healing|Al-Shifa']]'' (''Sanatio''), exists nearly complete in manuscript in the [[Bodleian Library]] and elsewhere; part of it on the ''De Anima'' appeared at Pavia (1490) as the ''Liber Sextus Naturalium'', and the long account of Avicenna's philosophy given by [[Muhammad al-Shahrastani]] seems to be mainly an analysis, and in many places a reproduction, of the Al-Shifa'. A shorter form of the work is known as the An-najat (''Liberatio''). The Latin editions of part of these works have been modified by the corrections which the monastic editors confess that they applied. There is also a {{lang|ar|حكمت مشرقيه|rtl=yes}} (''hikmat-al-mashriqqiyya'', in Latin ''Philosophia Orientalis''), mentioned by [[Roger Bacon]], the majority of which is lost in antiquity, which according to Averroes was pantheistic in tone.<ref name="EB1911" />

Avicenna's works further include:<ref name="Works">{{Cite web |url=http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/art/ibn%20Sina-REP.htm#islw |title=Ibn Sina Abu 'Ali Al-Husayn |publisher=Muslimphilosophy.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102091147/http://muslimphilosophy.com/sina/art/ibn%20Sina-REP.htm |archive-date=2 January 2010 |access-date=19 January 2010}}</ref><ref>Tasaneef lbn Sina by [[Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman]], Tabeeb Haziq, Gujarat, Pakistan, 1986, pp. 176–198</ref>
* ''Sirat al-shaykh al-ra'is'' (''The Life of Avicenna''), ed. and trans. WE. Gohlman, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1974. (The only critical edition of Avicenna's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani. A more recent translation of the Autobiography appears in D. Gutas, ''Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works'', Leiden: Brill, 1988; second edition 2014.)<ref name="Works" />
* ''[[Al-isharat wa al-tanbihat]]'' (''Remarks and Admonitions''), ed. S. Dunya, Cairo, 1960; parts translated by S.C. Inati, Remarks and Admonitions, Part One: Logic, Toronto, Ont.: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1984, and Ibn Sina and Mysticism, Remarks and Admonitions: Part 4, London: Kegan Paul International, 1996.<ref name="Works" />
* ''Al-Qanun fi'l-tibb'' (''The Canon of Medicine''), ed. I. a-Qashsh, Cairo, 1987. (Encyclopedia of medicine.)<ref name="Works" /> manuscript,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9718 |title=The Canon of Medicine |date=1 January 1597 |website=Wdl.org |access-date=1 March 2014 |archive-date=24 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624071006/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/9718/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> Latin translation, Flores Avicenne,<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3035 |title=Flowers of Avicenna |date=1 January 1508 |publisher=Printed by Claude Davost alias de Troys, for Bartholomeus Trot |access-date=1 March 2014 |archive-date=4 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304195134/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3035/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Michael de Capella, 1508,<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> Modern text.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7429 |title="The Book of Simple Medicine and Plants" from "The Canon of Medicine" |date=1 January 1900 |publisher=Knowledge Foundation |access-date=1 March 2014 |archive-date=23 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223040410/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7429/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ahmed Shawkat Al-Shatti, Jibran Jabbur.<ref>{{cite web
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* ''Risalah fi sirr al-qadar'' (''Essay on the Secret of Destiny''), trans. G. Hourani in Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.<ref name="Works" />
* ''[[Danishnama]]'' "The Book of Scientific Knowledge", ed. and trans. P. Morewedge, ''The Metaphysics of Avicenna'', London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.<ref name="Works" />
*  ''[[The Book of Healing]]'', Avicenna's major work on philosophy. He probably began to compose al-Shifa' in 1014, and completed it in 1020. Critical editions of the Arabic text have been published in Cairo, 1952–83, originally under the supervision of I. Madkour.<ref name="Works" />
* ''Kitab al-Najat'' "The Book of Salvation", trans. F. Rahman, ''Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. (The psychology of al-Shifa'.) (Digital version of the Arabic text)
* ''[[Risala fi'l-Ishq]]'' "A Treatise on Love". Translated by Emil L. Fackenheim.

=== Persian works ===

Avicenna's most important Persian work is the ''[[Danishnama]]'' ({{lang|fa|دانشنامه علائی}}, "Book of Knowledge". Avicenna created a new scientific vocabulary that had not previously existed in Persian. The ''Danishnama'' covers such topics as logic, metaphysics, music theory and other sciences of his time. It has been translated into English by Parwiz Morewedge in 1977.<ref>Avicenna, Danish Nama-i 'Alai. trans. Parviz Morewedge as ''The Metaphysics of Avicenna'' (New York: Columbia University Press), 1977.</ref> The book is also important in respect to Persian scientific works.

''Andar Dānish-i Rag'' ({{lang|fa|اندر دانش رگ}}, "On the Science of the Pulse") contains nine chapters on the science of the pulse and is a condensed synopsis.

[[Persian poetry]] from Avicenna is recorded in various manuscripts and later anthologies such as ''[[Nozhat al-Majales]]''.