Note: The following sourcebook of translations was used for a wide selection of primary sources. The citations to [HA] reference the Chapter number and then the selection number(s), i.e., ‘[HA], 3: T3’ references Chapter 3, selection T3 in [HA]. This work is freely available online via the link below.]

[HA]	Adamson, Peter and Fedor Benevich (eds.), 2023, The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries: Metaphysics and Theology (Islamicate Intellectual History, 12.1), Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004503991 [Adamson & Benevich (eds.) 2023 available online]

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