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A preliminary but growing bibliography on philosophical encyclopaedias, in the Middle Ages and beyond.
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.
Anawati, G. C. 1981: “Ishām Ibn Sīnā fī taqaddum al-ʿulūm”, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿArabī 2.5-6, 1981, pp. 16-42.
Avicenna 2006: Avicenne. Réfutation de l’astrologie, éd. et trad. Y. Michot, Albouraq, Beirut-Paris 1427/2006.
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. 2006: 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. 2018: "Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (Book of the Cure/Healing): The Manuscripts Preserved in Turkey and Their Significance", in The Reception of the Classical Arabic Philosophy in the Ottoman Empire. Proceedings of the Workshop of the International Associated Laboratory "Philosophie dans l'aire ottomane", Istanbul, 2-4 November 2015, ed. J. Jabbour, Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph, 67, 2017-2018, pp. 265-304.
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.
Bertolacci, A. 2021: “«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: "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.
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
Ciotti, G., Lin, H. 2016: Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts, ed. Giovanni Ciotti, Hang Lin, De Gruyter, Berlin 2016.
Dhanani, A. 1994: The Physical Theory of Kalām. Atoms, Space, and Void in Basrian Muʿtazilī Cosmology, Brill, Leiden-New York-Köln 1994.
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 “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 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/
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Koetschet, P. 2015: “Galien, al-Rāzī, et l’éternité du monde. Les fragments du traité Sur la démonstration, IV, dans les Doutes sur Galien”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 25, 2015, pp. 167-198.
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.
Mahdavi, Y. 1954: Fihrist-i nusḫahā-yi muṣannafāt-i Ibn-i Sīnā, Intišārāt-i Dānišgāh-yi Tihrān, Tehran 1333Hš/1954.
Malkin, I. 2011: A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011.
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
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.
Muhanna E., 2018: Elias Muhanna, The World in a Book. Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition, 2018
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.
Polanyi, K. 1944: The Great Transformation. Foreword by Robert M. MacIver, Farrar & Rinehart, New York 1944.
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.
Russell B., 1912: Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, Henry Holt and Co. - William and Norgate, New York - London, 1912
Treiger A., 2011: "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
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.
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.
Zonta, M. 2001: 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