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== Further reading == {{refbegin|30em}} === Encyclopedic articles === * {{Cite book |title=An Educational Encyclopedia of Islam |last=Syed Iqbal |first=Zaheer |publisher=Iqra Publishers |year=2010 |isbn=978-603-90004-4-0 |edition=2nd |location=Bangalore |page=1280}} * {{cite encyclopedia | last = Flannery | first = Michael | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] | title = Avicenna | url = https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/45755/Avicenna | access-date = 2 June 2022 | archive-date = 4 May 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150504224831/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/45755/Avicenna | url-status = live }} * {{cite encyclopedia | last = Goichon | first = A.-M. | author-link = A.-M. Goichon | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopedia of Islam]] | publisher = [[Brill Publishers]] | title = Ibn Sina, Abu 'Ali al-Husayn b. 'Abd Allah b. Sina, known in the West as Avicenna | url = http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/art/ei-is.htm | year = 1999 | access-date = 15 February 2007 | archive-date = 28 February 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070228032655/http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/art/ei-is.htm | url-status = live }} * {{cite encyclopedia | last1 = Mahdi | first1 = M. | author-link = M. Mahdi | first2 = D | last2 = Gutas | first3 = Sh.B. | last3 = Abed | first4 = M.E. | last4 = Marmura | first5 = F. | last5 = Rahman | first6 = G. | last6 = Saliba | first7 = O. | last7 = Wright | first8 = B. | last8 = Musallam | first9 = M. | last9 = Achena | first10 = S. | last10 = Van Riet | first11 = U. | last11 = Weisser | encyclopedia = [[Encyclopædia Iranica]] | title = Avicenna | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avicenna-index | year = 1987 | access-date = 15 January 2012 | archive-date = 29 April 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110429170220/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avicenna-index | url-status = live }} * {{CathEncy|wstitle=Avicenna}} * {{MacTutor Biography|id=Avicenna|title=Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (Avicenna)}} * {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Ibn Sīnā: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Sīnā |encyclopedia=The [[Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers]] |publisher=Springer |location=New York |url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Sina_BEA.htm |last=Ragep |first=Sally P. |editor1-first=Thomas |editor1-last=Hockey |pages=570–572 |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |display-editors=etal |access-date=15 October 2011 |archive-date=21 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921050851/https://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Sina_BEA.htm |url-status=live }} (PDF version) * [http://www.iep.utm.edu/avicenna/ Avicenna] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603023507/http://www.iep.utm.edu/avicenna/ |date=3 June 2012 }} entry by Sajjad H. Rizvi in the ''[[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]'' *{{cite encyclopedia |last1=M. Alper |first1=Ömer |last2=Durusoy |first2=Ali |last3=Terzioğlu |first3=Arslan |last4=H.Turabi |first4=Ahmet |last5=Karliğa |first5=H.Bekir |last6=Görgün |first6=Tahsin |title=İBN SÎNÂ – An article published in Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam |date=1999 |publisher=[[İslâm Ansiklopedisi|TDV Encyclopedia of Islam]] |isbn=978-97-53-89447-0 |pages=319–358 |volume=20 (Ibn Haldun - Ibnu'l Cezeri) |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibn-sina |lang=tr |access-date=20 May 2022 |archive-date=26 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226032614/https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/ibn-sina |url-status=live }} === Primary literature === * For an old list of other extant works, [[C. Brockelmann]]'s ''Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur'' (Weimar 1898), vol. i. pp. 452–458. (XV. W.; G. W. T.) * For a current list of his works see A. Bertolacci (2006) and D. Gutas (2014) in the section "Philosophy". * {{Cite book |title=The Metaphysics of The Healing |last=Avicenna |publisher=Brigham Young University |others=Michael E. Marmura (trans.) |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-934893-77-0 |edition=1 |series=A parallel English-Arabic text translation}} * {{Cite book |title=The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī'l-ṭibb), vol. 1 |last=Avicenna |publisher=Great Books of the Islamic World |others=Laleh Bakhtiar (ed.), Oskar Cameron Gruner (trans.), Mazhar H. Shah (trans.) |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-871031-67-6}} * Avicenne: ''Réfutation de l'astrologie''. Edition et traduction du texte arabe, introduction, notes et lexique par Yahya Michot. Préface d'Elizabeth Teissier (Beirut-Paris: Albouraq, 2006) {{ISBN|2-84161-304-6}}. * William E. Gohlam (ed.), ''The Life of Ibn Sina. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation'', Albany, State of New York University Press, 1974. * For Ibn Sina's life, see [[Ibn Khallikan]]'s ''Biographical Dictionary'', translated by [[de Slane]] (1842); [[F. Wüstenfeld]]'s ''Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher'' (Göttingen, 1840). * Madelung, Wilferd and Toby Mayer (ed. and tr.), ''Struggling with the Philosopher: A Refutation of Avicenna's Metaphysics.'' A New Arabic Edition and English Translation of [[Muhammad al-Shahrastani|Shahrastani's]] Kitab al-Musara'a. === Secondary literature === * {{cite book | first = Soheil M. | last = Afnan | author-link = Soheil Afnan | title = Avicenna: His Life and Works | url = https://archive.org/details/avicennahislifea033070mbp | year = 1958 | publisher = G. Allen & Unwin | location = London | oclc = 31478971 }} :: This is, on the whole, an informed and good account of the life and accomplishments of one of the greatest influences on the development of thought both Eastern and Western. ... It is not as philosophically thorough as the works of D. Saliba, A.M. Goichon, or L. Gardet, but it is probably the best essay in English on this important thinker of the Middle Ages. (Julius R. Weinberg, ''The Philosophical Review'', Vol. 69, No. 2, Apr. 1960, pp. 255–259) * {{cite book | title = Avicenna | url = https://archive.org/details/avicenna00good | url-access = registration | first = Lenn E. | last = Goodman | author-link = Lenn Evan Goodman | year = 2006 | publisher = Cornell University Press | edition = Updated | isbn = 978-0-415-01929-3 }} :: This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have been written in this century on Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) (980–1037). It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author. ... (Ian Richard Netton, ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society'', Third Series, Vol. 4, No. 2, July 1994, pp. 263–264) * {{Cite journal |last=Gutas |first=Dimitri |year=1987 |title=Avicenna's maḏhab, with an Appendix on the question of his date of birth |journal=Quaderni di Studi Arabi |volume=5–6 |pages=323–336 |ref=none}} * Y.T. Langermann (ed.), ''Avicenna and his Legacy. A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy'', Brepols Publishers, 2010, {{ISBN|978-2-503-52753-6}} * For a new understanding of his early career, based on a newly discovered text, see also: Michot, Yahya, ''Ibn Sînâ: Lettre au vizir Abû Sa'd''. ''Editio princeps'' d'après le manuscrit de Bursa, traduction de l'arabe, introduction, notes et lexique (Beirut-Paris: Albouraq, 2000) {{ISBN|2-84161-150-7}}. * {{Cite book |title=Avicenna |last=Strohmaier |first=Gotthard |publisher=C.H. Beck |year=2006 |isbn=978-3-406-54134-6 |language=de |author-link=Gotthard Strohmaier}} :: This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science. Its author is a renowned expert in Greek and Arabic medicine who has paid considerable attention to Avicenna in his recent studies. ... (Amos Bertolacci, ''Isis'', Vol. 96, No. 4, December 2005, p. 649) * {{Cite book |title=Resalah Judiya of Ibn Sina (First edition 1971), Literary Research Unit, CCRIH, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; (Second edition 1981) Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, Govt. of India, New Delhi; (Fourth edition 1999), Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, Govt. of India, New Delhi |first=Hakim Syed Zillur |last=Rahman}} * {{Cite book |title=AI-Advia al-Qalbia of Ibn Sina |first=Hakim Syed Zillur |last=Rahman |publisher=Publication Division, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh |year=1996}} * {{Cite book |title=Ilmul Amraz of Ibn Sina (First edition 1969), Tibbi Academy, Delhi (Second edition 1990), (Third edition 1994), Tibbi Academy, Aligarh |first=Hakim Syed Zillur |last=Rahman}} * {{Cite encyclopedia |year=1986 |title=Qanoon lbn Sina Aur Uskey Shareheen wa Mutarjemeen |publisher=Publication Division, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh |author=Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman}} * {{Citation |first=Hakim Syed Zillur |last=Rahman |title=Qānūn-i ibn-i Sīnā aur us ke shārḥīn va mutarajimīn |date=1986 |location=ʻAlīgaṛh |publisher=Pablīkeshan Dīvīzan, Muslim Yūnīvarsiṭī|ol=1374509M }} * {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2004 |title=Qanun Ibn Sina and its Translation and Commentators (Persian Translation; 203pp) |publisher=Society for the Appreciation of Cultural Works and Dignitaries, Tehran, Iran |author=Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman}} * Shaikh al Rais Ibn Sina (Special number) 1958–59, Ed. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Tibbia College Magazine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, [[India]]. === Medicine === * [[Edward Granville Browne|Browne, Edward G.]] ''Islamic Medicine. Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1919–1920'', reprint: New Delhi: Goodword Books, 2001. {{ISBN|81-87570-19-9}} * Pormann, Peter & [[Savage-Smith, Emilie]]. ''Medieval Islamic Medicine'', Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2007. * Prioreschi, Plinio. ''Byzantine and Islamic Medicine'', A History of Medicine, Vol. 4, Omaha: Horatius Press, 2001. * [[Syed Ziaur Rahman]]. Pharmacology of Avicennian Cardiac Drugs (Metaanalysis of researches and studies in Avicennian Cardiac Drugs along with English translation of Risalah al Adwiya al Qalbiyah), [[Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences]], Aligarh, India, 2020 {{ISBN|978-93-80610-43-6}} === Philosophy === * Amos Bertolacci, ''The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitab al-Sifa'. A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought'', Leiden: Brill 2006, (Appendix C contains an ''Overview of the Main Works by Avicenna on Metaphysics in Chronological Order''). * [[Dimitri Gutas]], ''Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works'', Leiden, Brill 2014, second revised and expanded edition (first edition: 1988), including an inventory of Avicenna' Authentic Works. * Andreas Lammer: ''The Elements of Avicenna's Physics. Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations''. Scientia graeco-arabica 20. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. * Jon McGinnis and David C. Reisman (eds.) ''Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Avicenna Study Group'', Leiden: Brill, 2004. * {{in lang|fr}} Michot, Jean R., ''La destinée de l'homme selon Avicenne'', Louvain: Aedibus Peeters, 1986, {{ISBN|978-90-6831-071-9}}. * [[Nader El-Bizri]], ''The Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and [[Heidegger]]'', Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Publications SUNY, 2000 (reprinted by SUNY Press in 2014 with a new Preface). * Nader El-Bizri, "Avicenna and Essentialism," ''Review of Metaphysics'', Vol. 54 (June 2001), pp. 753–778. * Nader El-Bizri, "Avicenna's ''De Anima'' between Aristotle and Husserl," in ''The Passions of the Soul in the Metamorphosis of Becoming'', ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, pp. 67–89. * Nader El-Bizri, "Being and Necessity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Avicenna's Metaphysics and Cosmology," in ''Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm'', ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2006, pp. 243–261. * Nader El-Bizri, 'Ibn Sīnā's Ontology and the Question of Being', ''Ishrāq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook'' 2 (2011), 222–237 * Nader El-Bizri, 'Philosophising at the Margins of 'Sh'i Studies': Reflections on Ibn Sīnā's Ontology', in ''The Study of Sh'i Islam. History, Theology and Law'', eds. F. Daftary and G. Miskinzoda (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014), pp. 585–597. * Reisman, David C. (ed.), ''Before and After Avicenna: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group'', Leiden: Brill, 2003. {{refend}}
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