Ibn Sīnā
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 12 anchored passages
ابن سينا · Avicenna · Avicenne · al-Raʼīs · the Chief · the Chief Master · ابو علي الحسين ابن عبد الله بن سينا البخاري · ابى على الفيلسوف · الشيخ الرئيس
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The first of the eleven philosophers of Islam whose views on the jinn the second aim of the book will report.
(As for *the second aim*) it is on the views of the philosophers of Islam concerning the jinn:
the jinn is an airy animal (ḥayawān hawāʼī), rational (nāṭiq), transparent in body, whose nature it is to take on diverse shapes.
« Ibn Sīnā and al-Fārābī »
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Avicenna, styled al-Raʼīs, whose section on joy and happiness is appended to complete the argument.
And to complete the benefit, we recite to you the passage of the Chief Ibn Sīnā, quoted from the Book of Indication (Kitāb al-Ishārah), in the part on the divine things (al-Ilāhīyāt), under the heading that follows:
It may prevail over the fancies of the common people that the strong delights (ladhdhah) are the sensory ones, and that what lies beyond these are weak delights or unreal imaginings.
The Eighth Section (al-Namaṭ al-thāmin)
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Chief Master of the philosophers of Islam, cited for his treatise on the soul, for a demonstration of prime matter from continuity and separation, and for verses on the soul as a dove descending from the highest station.
and the first defines it, as Ibn Sīnā the philosopher set out in his treatise on the soul, as a first perfection for a natural instrumental body.
There descended to you from the loftiest station — a dove, possessed of pride and of withholding Veiled from the eye of every knower — yet she it is who unveiled and wore no veil (Ibn Sīnā)
Abū ʻAlī the philosopher has a rational demonstration for the establishing of this matter, that is, of prime matter, and it is this: