The library of Miskawayh
Across all 1 work of Miskawayh’s in the library, the harvest finds 75 named sources — 97 citations in all. The library holds 9 of them; the rest are the corpus’s wanted list. In the other direction, 1 work in the library quotes Miskawayh back — 2 citations.
most drawn on Aristotle · Qurʼān · Miskawayh · Economics · Galen · Metaphysics · Nicomachean Ethics · Poetics · Politics · Rhetoric
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12 neutral 4 refuted 2 extended 42 endorsed Of the 97 citations Miskawayh makes, 4 argue against the text cited.
the sources most drawn on
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Aristotle 2 neutral 13 endorsed 16 citations
- al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
- the book of happiness
- 16 citations
As for the kinds of wretchedness that stand opposite these happinesses, we have left off mentioning them, because they are known from their opposites, as is shown in logic, that the knowledge of opposites comes together in a single state.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · A logical doctrine is cited as warrant for an omission. ¶ -
Qurʼān God 7 citations
- al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
- the publisher's introduction · ch. 2 · ch. 5
- 7 citations
who has forbidden the adornment of God, which He has brought forth for His servants, and the good things of provision?
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the publisher's introduction · scripture cited by the objector to legitimate outward adornment ¶ -
Miskawayh 1 endorsed 2 citations
And we have seen none who set it out and gave it its full due like the Book of Happiness (Kitāb al-Saʻādah) of the moral philosopher Abū ʻAlī ibn Miskawayh;
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the publisher's introduction · the introduction's endorsement of the work it prefaces ¶ -
Economics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation
As for his books on the governance of the household and of cities, nothing has been translated into Arabic except what has been found of his book on the governance of cities, which is our discourse, and I have mentioned it in the catalogue of his books.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · The work is posited and then reported as unavailable. ¶ -
Galen 1 citation
Whoever looks into the book On the Uses of the Parts will come upon a great wisdom and will see clearly much of what I have merely gestured at in this place.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · An anatomical authority is invoked to carry the demonstration the author declines to complete. ¶ -
Metaphysics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation
Then he made, on what is after nature, his books upon which he inscribed the letters, those known as the Alif, the Bāʼ and what comes after them;
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · The work is introduced as the summit of the theoretical corpus, with its transmission noted. ¶ -
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation
As for what is proper to man in his own essence, that is his book on ethics, a very great book of many benefits, which teaches how a man acquires an excellent endowment and a praiseworthy disposition from which fine acts and well-pleasing works issue.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · The work is cited for the evaluation of the three classes of goods. ¶ -
Poetics Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation
And he made eighth a book in which he mentioned the canons of the expressions that work upon the imagination, and numbered all by which this art is completed, and divided it into its species and its kinds, and named it Fūrīṭīqā, that is, Poetry — so that this art might be completed according to these divisions.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · The work is introduced as the book of imaginative deception. ¶ -
Politics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation
As for his books on the governance of the household and of cities, nothing has been translated into Arabic except what has been found of his book on the governance of cities, which is our discourse, and I have mentioned it in the catalogue of his books.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · The work is posited as one of the two outward practical books. ¶ -
Rhetoric Aristotle 1 endorsed 1 citation
As for that whose falsity is equal to its truth, it is that by which some persuasion is sought in whatever opinion it may be, and that the hearer should come to rest in what is said to him and give it some measure of credence, which falls short of strong presumption.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq · the book of happiness · The work is introduced as the book of persuasion. ¶
named once
65 sources · 1 workEach of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.
- al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
- Anonymous verse on deferring to the adept and to those who saw the new moon · Anonymous verse on laundered clothes and the rotten egg · Anonymous verse on learning wasted among beasts · Anonymous verse on nothing remaining of these people but their shapes · Anonymous verse on soft bodies and burrs in the breast · Anonymous verse on talk of knowledge against talk of fish and greens · Anonymous verse on the fine attire of the brought-low and the shroud · Anonymous verse on the intellect as prince over caprice · Anonymous verse on the wolf's howl and the human voice · Anonymous verse on weeping for a squandered lifetime · Books of the sages on the leading of men to happiness · Doctrine of the metempsychosists on animal pain · Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif · Fatāwā of Ibn Ḥajar · Hadith commanding to take on the character of God · Hadith on Adam created upon the form of the Merciful · Hadith on God loving the clean devotee · Hadith on God loving to see the trace of His favour on His servant · Hadith on cleanliness as part of faith · Hadith on honouring the hair · Hadith on the believers as a single body · Hadith on the servant whose garment is better than his deed · Hadith on women, perfume and prayer · Kitāb al-Ishārah, part on the divine things, eighth section · Kitāb al-Rūḥ · Letter of Būlus to Anūshirwān · Proverbial saying that men are enemies of what they do not know · Qurʼān, the verse on the question about the spirit · Qurʼān, the verse that God takes the souls at their death · Teaching of Aristotle's associates on the order of study · The Law and religion · The philosopher's term for the animal spirit · The revealed laws · The speech of him who does not speak out of caprice · Unattributed source on the providential role of pain · Verse on self-praise and deeds · Verse on the student of history remembered in history · Verses of Diʻbil al-Khuzāʻī on the multitude in which no one is seen · Verses of al-Mubarrad on saddlecloths and natures · Verses of al-Shāfiʻī on the garment and the soul · al-Asfār al-Arbaʻah · al-Bannānī's gloss on Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ · al-Durar al-Muntatharah · al-Kulliyyāt · al-Kāmil ¶ · al-Sīrah al-Muḥammadīyah · the Book and the Sunnah and the consensus of the Companions · the Muʻtazilī doctrine that spirit and intellect are accidents · the approval of the luminous-body doctrine · the commentary on al-Bukhārī · the doctrine of Ibn Ḥazm on the spirit's pre-bodily interworld · the doctrine of the people of the Sunnah and the community on spirit and intellect · the doctrine of the people of tradition on the distinctness of soul and spirit · the findings of al-Ālūsī and others · the outward sense of the Book and the words of the Infallible · the physicians' definition of the spirit · the position of Ibn Ḥabīb that spirit and soul are two things · the reading of al-Aʻmash on the transmission of Ibn Masʻūd · the report of most of the scholars that spirit and soul are one · the report that God created the spirits two thousand years before the bodies · the report transmitted by al-Bazzār from Abū Hurayrah on the believer's death · the saying that whoever knows his soul knows his Lord · the statement of Ibn al-ʻArabī on soul and spirit · the ʻayniyyah · Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bālighah
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2 · all from one work1 work in the library quotes Miskawayh — 2 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Miskawayh is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq Miskawayh 1 endorsed 2 citations
The book is named with its author and recommended as unequalled, with a condition about the reader's earnestness.
And we have seen none who set it out and gave it its full due like the Book of Happiness (Kitāb al-Saʻādah) of the moral philosopher Abū ʻAlī ibn Miskawayh;
the publisher's introduction ¶