Encylopaedism and Classifications

• Anawati, G. C. 1981: “Ishām Ibn Sīnā fī taqaddum al-ʿulūm”, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿArabī 2.5-6, 1981, pp. 16-42.

• Bakar, O. 1998: Classification of Knowledge in Islam. A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Science, Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 1998 (first published by the Institute for Policy Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1992)

• Bertolacci, A., Dadkhah, G. 2019: Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā): The Metaphysics of the Šifāʾ. Facsimile Edition of MS Malek Library (Tehran) 1085, Dated 509H/1115. With Introductions in English and Persian by Amos Bertolacci and Gholamreza Dadkhah, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa (CA), 2019.

• Bertolacci, A., Dadkhah, G. 2022: "Avicenna’s Šifāʾ from Safavid Iran to the Mughal Empire: On Ms. Rampur Raza Library, 3476”, Entangled Religions. Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 13.5, 2022 (“Safavid and Mughal Empires in Contact: Intellectual and Religious Exchanges between Iran and India in the Early Modern Era”).

• de Callataÿ, G., Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ: Des arts scientifiques et de leur objectif. Présentation et traduction de l’Épître VII des Frères de la Pureté, «Le Muséon» 116/1-2 (2003), pp. 231-258

• de Callataÿ, G., The Classification of Knowledge in the Rasāʾil, in N. El-Bizri (ed.), The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ and their Rasāʾil: An Introduction, Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Oxford 2008, pp. 58-82

• de Callataÿ, G., Encyclopaedism on the Fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy: The Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, the Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm on the Division of Science, «Asiatische Studien» 71/3 (2017), pp. 857-877

• de Callataÿ, G., Following the Steps of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ in the Ottoman World.  II: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Bisṭāmī and His tashjīr Diagrams of Science, in «Mediterranea. International journal on the transfer of knowledge» 8 (2023), pp. 55-88

• Eichner, H. 2009: The Post-Avicennian Philosophical Tradition and Islamic Orthodoxy: Philosophical and Theological Summae in Context (Habilitationsschrift), Halle 2009

• Eichner, H. 2010: "Al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā on ‘Universal Science’ and the System of Sciences: Evidence of the Arabic Tradition of the Posterior Analytic", in «Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale» 21 (2010), pp. 71-95

• Endress, G. 2006: "The Cycle of Knowledge: Intellectual Traditions and Encyclopaedias of the Rational Sciences in Arabic Islamic Hellenism", in Organizing Knowledge. Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World, ed. G. Endress, A. Filali-Ansary, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2006, pp. 103-133.

• Endress, G., Filali-Ansary, A. 2006: Organizing Knowledge. Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World, ed. G. Endress, A. Filali-Ansary, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2006.

• ERC Advanced Project PhiBor “Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations and Intellectual Endeavours.Towards a Critical Edition of the Metaphysics (Ilahiyyat of Kitab al- Shifa’) of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)” (2014-2019), A. Bertolacci, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa-IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca. www.avicennaproject.eu

• Gutas, D. 1983: "Paul the Persian on the classification of the parts of Aristotle’s philosophy: a milestone between Alexandria and Baġdād", in «Der Islam. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients» 60 (1983), pp. 231-267

• Gutas, D. 2012: “The Empiricism of Avicenna”, Oriens, 40.2, 2012, pp. 391-436.

• Gutas, D. 2014: Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works, Brill, Leiden-New York-København-Köln 1988; Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, Including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2014.

• Hein, C. 1985: Definition und Enteilung der Philosophie. Von der spätantiken Einleitungsliterature zur arabischen Enzyklopädie, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M.-Bern-New York 1985.

• Jolivet, J. 1996: “Classifications of the Sciences”, in Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, ed. R. Rashed and R. Morelon, Routledge, London and New York 1996, vol. III, pp. 1008-1025; summarized in Id., “Classification des sciences, arabes et médiévales”, in Les doctrines de la science de l’antiquité à l’âge classique, ed. R. Rashed, J. Biard, Louvain 1999, pp. 211-235.

• Marmura, M. 1980: "Avicenna on the Divisions of the Sciences in the Isagoge of his Shifāʾ", in «Journal of the History of Arabic Science», 1980, pp. 239-251

• Maróth, M. 1980: "Das System der Wissenschaften bei Ibn Sīnā", in Avicenna/Ibn Sina (980-1036), edited by Burchard Brentjes, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, 1980, vol. II, pp. 27-32

• Muhanna E., 2018: Elias Muhanna, The World in a Book. Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition, 2018

• Russell B., 1912: Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, Henry Holt and Co. - William and Norgate, New York - London, 1912

• Signori, M., 2025: Marco Signori, I rami del sapere. Testi arabi sulla classificazione delle scienze, ETS, Pisa 2025

• Treiger A., 2011: Alexander Treiger, "Al-Ghazālī’s Classifications of the Sciences and Descriptions of the Highest Theoretical Science", in «Dîvân. Dīsīplīnlerarasi çalişmalar dergīsī» 30/1 (2011), pp. 1-30

• Zonta, M. 2001: Mauro Zonta, "La divisio scientiarum presso al-Farabi: dalla «introduzione alla filosofia» tardoantica all’enciclopedismo medievale", in La Divisione della Filosofia e le sue Ragioni. Lettura di testi medievali (VI-XIII secolo). Atti del Settimo Convegno della Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale [S.I.S.P.M.], Assisi 14-15 novembre 1997, a cura di G. D’Onofrio, Avagliano Editore, Cava de’ Tirreni (Salerno) 2001, pp. 65-78

Philosophy and the Particular Sciences

• Adamson, P. 2006: “Vision, Light, and Color in al-Kindī, Ptolemy and the Ancient Commentators”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 16, 2006, pp. 207-236.

• Adamson, P., Pormann, P. 2017: Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam, ed. Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann (Warburg Institute Colloquia, vol. 31), The Warburg Institute, London 2017.

• Alpina, T. 2017: “Al-Ǧūzğānī’s insertion of On Cardiac Remedies in Avicenna’s Book of the Soul: the Latin translation as a clue of his editorial activity on the Book of the Cure?”, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 28, 2017, pp. 365-400.

• Alpina, T. 2021: Subject Definition Activity. Framing Avicenna’s Science of the Soul, de Gruyter, Berlin 2021.

• Bertolacci, A. 2019: "Metaphysics, Elemental Transformation, Medicine. A Specimen of Avicenna’s System of Thought in Ms. Escorial 621", «Oriens» 47 (2019), pp. 389-417.

• ERC Advanced Project “Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World”, P. Adamson, LMU Munich https://www.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/lehreinheiten/philosophie_6/erc_project-phil-islamic-world/index.html

• ERC Consolidator Project “Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE – 1000 AD)”, M. Martelli, University of Bologna https://alchemeast.eu/

• al-Fārābī 1992: Maqāla fī mā yaṣiḥḥu wa-mā lā yaṣiḥḥu min aḥkām al-nuǧūm (Treatise on what is right and what is not right in the decrees of the stars), in Al-Fārābī, The Philosophical Works, ed. J. Al-Yasin, Dar al-Manahel, Beirut 1992, pp. 281-301.

• el-Fekkak, B. 2017: “Cosmic, Corporeal and Civil Regencies: al-Fārābī’s anti-Galenic Defence of Hierarchical Cardiocentrism” in Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam, ed. Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann (Warburg Institute Colloquia, vol. 31), The Warburg Institute, London 2017, pp. 255–268.

• Gutas, D. 2003: “Medical Theory and Scientific Method in the Age of Avicenna”, in Before and After Avicenna. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Avicenna Study Group, ed. David C. Reisman, with the assistance of Ahmed al-Rahim, Brill, Leiden 2003, pp. 145-162.

• Hasnawi, A. 2002: “Avicenne et le livre IV des Météorologiques d’Aristote”, in Aristoteles Chemicus. Il IV libro dei “Meteorologica” nella tradizione antica e medievale, ed. C. Viano, Academia Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2002, pp. 133-143.

• Kruk, R. 1999: “On Animals: Excerpts of Aristotle and Ibn Sînâ in Marwazî's Tabâʾiʿ al-Ḥayawân”, in Aristotle's Animals in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. C. Steel, G. Guldentops, P. Beullens, Leuven University Press, Leuven 1999, pp. 96-125.

• Kruk, R. 2019: “Tall Trees, Huge Animals. Ibn Abī l-Ashʿath and Marwazī on the Most Equitable Climate”, in Spreading Knowledge in a Changing World, ed. C. Burnett, P. Mantas España, Córdoba University Press, The Warburg Institute, Cordoba-London 2019, pp. 247-270.

• Lindberg, D. C. 1976: Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-London 1976, paperback ed. 1981.

• McGinnis, J. 2013: “New Light on Avicenna: Optics and its Role in Avicennan Theories of Vision, Cognition and Emanation,” in Philosophical Psychology in Arabic Thought and the Latin Aristotelianism of the 13th Century, ed. by Luis Xavier López-Farjeat & Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp (Sic et Non), Vrin, Paris 2013, pp. 41-57.

• Musallam, B. 1987: “Avicenna. Biology and Medicine”, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, vol. III, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London-Boston 1987, pp. 94-99.

• Zimmermann, F. W. 1976: “Al-Farabi und die philosophische Kritik an Galen von Alexander zu Averroes”, in Akten des VII. Kongresses für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Göttingen 1976, pp. 401-414.

Studies on Individual Summae

Wisdom for ʿArūdī (The Prosodist)

• Murtha, C.F. 2026: Colin Fitzpatrick Murtha, "A Stratified World: Avicenna’s Model of the Sublunary Strata", in G. Korobili, T. Tieleman, Meteorology Beyond Borders. Ancient and Modern Reflections (Euhormos 10), Brill, Leiden-Boston 2026, pp. 411-435

Book of the cure / healing

• Bertolacci, A. 2006: Amos Bertolacci, The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ: A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought, Brill, Leiden-Boston (“Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science”, vol. 63), 2006.

• Bertolacci, A. 2021: Amos Bertolacci, “«The Excellent among the Earlier Scholars»: Alexander of Aphrodisias in Avicenna’s Metaphysics”, in Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Proceedings of the Conference Alessandro di Afrodisia nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento. Convegno internazionale in ricordo di Paolo Accattino, Torino, 27-28 ottobre 2017 (org. P. B. Rossi), ed. P. B. Rossi, M. Di Giovanni, A. Robiglio, Brepols, Studia Artistarum, 2021, pp. 33-58.

• Bertolacci, A. 2023: Amos Bertolacci, "The Translator’s Cut. Cultural Experience and Philosophical Narration in the Early Latin Translations of Avicenna”, in Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, ed. Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil, Routledge, New York-London 2023 [published 29 June 2022], pp. 303-324. 

book of science for ʿalà al-dawla

Digital and Interdisciplinary Tools

• ERC Advanced Project DASI “Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions” (2011-16), A. Avanzini, University of Pisa, A. Bertolacci, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. http://dasi.cnr.it/

• ERC Advanced Project PhiBor “Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations and Intellectual Endeavours.Towards a Critical Edition of the Metaphysics (Ilahiyyat of Kitab al- Shifa’) of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)” (2014-2019), A. Bertolacci, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa-IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca. www.avicennaproject.eu

• ERC Consolidator Project “Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE – 1000 AD)”, M. Martelli, University of Bologna https://alchemeast.eu/

• Gallo, M., Marotta, D., Zenzaro, S. 2018: “PhiBor’s Digital Tools”, communication presented at the International Conference "Making the Impossible Possible. On the Methodology for Editing Medieval Works with Massive Manuscript Tradition", Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca, 27-29 June 2018.

• Greif, A. 2006: Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006.

• Karagiorgou, O. 2009: “Mapping trade by the amphora”, in Byzantine trade, 4th - 12th centuries. The archaeology of local, regional and international exchange. Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004, Farnham 2009, pp. 37-58.

• Malkin, I. 2011: A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.

• M-Classi: https://sites.uclouvain.be/erc-philand/dissemination/m-classi/

• Reynolds, P. 2018: “The supply networks of the Roman East and West. Interaction, fragmentation, and the origins of the Byzantine economy”, in: Trade, commerce, and the state in the Roman world, Oxford 2018, 353-395.

• Zenzaro, S., Marotta, D. 2018: “CEED: a Cooperative Web-Based Editor for Critical Editions”, communication presented at 7th AIUCD Conference 2018 Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age. Memory, Humanities and Technologies, January 31st - February 2nd, 2018, University of Bari.