Apart from the references in the text, the bibliography also lists several recent studies on Avicenna along with some reference works. For a full list of Avicenna’s works in Arabic and Persian, their editions, translations, and studies, see the inventory in Gutas 2014a, also for further bibliography.

Works by Ibn Sina

Secondary Sources

• Adamson, P., 2004, “Non-Discursive Thought in Avicenna’s Commentary on the Theology of Aristotle,” in Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam, J. McGinnis (ed.), Leiden: Brill, pp. 87–111. (Scholar)
• –––, (ed.), 2013, Interpreting Avicenna. Critical Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Akasoy, A., and A. Fidora, 2005, The Arabic Version of the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Badawī, ʿA., 1947, Arisṭū ʿinda l-ʿArab, Cairo: Maktabat an-nahḍa al-miṣriyya. (Scholar)
• Barnes, J., 1994, Aristotle. Posterior Analytics, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Bertolacci, A., 2006, The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Biesterfeldt, H.H., 2000. “Medieval Arabic Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy,” in The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy, S. Harvey (ed.), Boston: Kluwer, pp. 77–98. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, “Arabisch-islamische Enzyklopädien: Formen und Funktionen,” in Die Enzyklopädie im Mittelalter vom Hochmittelalter bis zur frühen Neuzeit, Ch. Meier (ed.), München: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 43–83. (Scholar)
• Black, D., 2008, “Avicenna on Self-Awareness and Knowing that One Knows,” in The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition, S. Rahman, T. Street, and H. Tahiri (eds.), N.p.: Springer, pp. 63–87. (Scholar)
• Davidson, H.A., 1987, Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect, Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (Scholar)
• Eichner, H., 2009, The Post-Avicennian Philosophical Tradition and Islamic Orthodoxy: Philosophical and Theological Summae in Context, unpublished professorial dissertation (Habilitationsschrift), Halle. (Scholar)
• Geoffroy et al., 2014, Commentaire sur le Livre Lambda de la Métaphysique d’Aristote (Chapitres 6–10) par Ibn Sīnā (Avicenne), M. Geoffroy, J. Janssens, and M. Sebti (eds.), Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
• Gohlman, W.E., 1974, The Life of Ibn Sina, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Goichon, A.-M., 1938, Lexique de la langue philosophique d’Ibn Sīnā, Paris: Desclée de Brouwer. (Scholar)
• –––, 1939, Vocabulaires comparés d’Aristote et d’Ibn Sīnā, Paris: Desclée de Brouwer. (Scholar)
• –––, 1951, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenne). Livre des directives et remarques, Paris: Vrin (Scholar)
• –––, 1959, Le récit de Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān commenté par des textes d’Avicenne. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer. (Scholar)
• Gutas, D., 1987–88, “Avicenna’s Maḏhab, With an Appendix on the Question of His Date of Birth,” Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 5–6: 323–36; repr. in Gutas 2014b-II. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, Greek Thought, Arabic Culture, London and New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, “Avicenna’s Eastern (“Oriental”) Philosophy: Nature, Contents, Transmission,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 10: 159‑180. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “Intuition and Thinking: The Evolving Structure of Avicenna’s Epistemology,” Princeton Papers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 9: 1‑38; repr. in Aspects of Avicenna, R. Wisnovsky (ed.), Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2001, pp. 1‑38. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, “The Heritage of Avicenna: The Golden Age of Arabic Philosophy, 1000 ‑ ca. 1350,” in Janssens and De Smet 2002: 81–97. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004a. “Geometry and the Rebirth of Philosophy in Arabic with al‑Kindī,” in Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea, Studies … Dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his Sixty‑fifth Birthday, ed. R. Arnzen and J. Thielmann, 195–209. Leuven: Peeters. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004b, “Avicenna’s Marginal Glosses on De anima and the Greek Commentatorial Tradition,” in Philosophy Science & Exegesis in Greek, Arabic & Latin Commentaries, ed. P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, and M.W.F. Stone, II,77–88, London: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 83.2. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006a, “Intellect Without Limits: The Absence of Mysticism in Avicenna,” in Intellect et imagination dans la Philosophie Médiévale (Actes du XI^e Congrès International de Philosophie Médiévale de la S.I.E.P.M., Porto, du 26 au 31 août 2002), M. C. Pacheco and J.F. Meirinhos (eds.), Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 351–372; repr. in Gutas 2014b, article XII. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006b, “Imagination and Transcendental Knowledge in Avicenna,” in Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy. From the Many to the One: Essays in Celebration of Richard M. Frank, J.E. Montgomery (ed.,), Leuven: Peters, pp. 337–354; repr. in Gutas 2014b, article XI. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “Origins in Baghdad,” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, R. Pasnau (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 11–25 (Scholar)
• –––, 2012a, “Platon. Tradition Arabe,” in Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques, R. Goulet (ed.), Paris: CNRS. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012b, “Avicenna: The Metaphysics of the Rational Soul,” Muslim World, 102: 417–425. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014a, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Inroduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works. Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014b, Orientations of Avicenna’s Philosophy, Ashgate/Variorum: Surrey/Burlington. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014b-I, “Avicenna: Biography,” in Gutas 2014b, article I. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014b-VII, “The Empiricism of Avicenna,” in Gutas 2014b, article VII.
• –––, 2015, “The Author as Pioneer[ing Genius]: Graeco-Arabic Philosophical Autobiographies and the Paradigmatic Ego,” in Concepts of Authorship in Pre-Modern Arabic Texts, L. Behzadi and J. Hameen-Anttila (eds.), Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, pp. 47–62 (Scholar)
• Hasse, D.N., 2013, “Avicenna’s Epistemological Optimism,” in Adamson 2013, pp. 109–119. (Scholar)
• Hasse, D.N., and A. Bertolacci (eds.), 2012, The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics [Scientia Graeco-Arabica 7], Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Heath, P., 1990, “Disorientation and Reorientation in Ibn Sina’s Epistle of the Bird: A Reading,” in Intellectual Studies on Islam. Essays written in honor of Martin B. Dickson, Michel M. Mazzaoui and Vera B. Moreen, eds., Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, pp. 163–183. (Scholar)
• Inati, S.C., 1984, Ibn Sīnā, Remarks and Admonitions. Part One: Logic,Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Ibn Sīnā and Mysticism. Remarks and Admonitions: Part Four, London and New York: Kegan Paul International. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, Ibn Sina’s Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Janssens, J., 1991, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ (1970–1989), Leuven: Leuven University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999, An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sīnā: First Supplement (1990–1994), Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, Ibn Sīnā and His Influence on the Arabic and Latin World [Variorum Collected Studies 843], Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Janssens, J., and D. De Smet (eds.), 2002, Avicenna and His Heritage, Leuven: Leuven University Press. (Scholar)
• Kaya, M.C., 2012, “Prophetic Legislation: Avicenna’s View of Practical Philosophy Revisited,” in Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology, T. Kirby, R. Acar, and B. Baş, eds., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 205–223. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “In the Shadow of “Prophetic Legislation”: The Venture of Practical Philosophy after Avicenna,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 24: 269–296. (Scholar)
• Lameer, J., 2006, Conception and Belief in Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī (ca 1571–1635), Tehran: Iranian Institute of Philosophy. (Scholar)
• Langermann, T., 2009, Avicenna and His Legacy. A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy, Turnhout: Brepols. (Scholar)
• Lizzini, O., 2009, “Vie active, vie contemplative et philosophie chez Avicenne,” in Vie active et vie contemplative au Moyen Âge et au seuil de la Renaissance, Ch. Trottmann (ed.), Rome: École Française de Rome, pp. 207–239. (Scholar)
• Mahdavī, Y., 1954, Fehrest-e nosḫahā-ye moṣannafāt-e Ebn-e Sīnā, Tehran: Dānešgāh-e Tehrān, 1333Š. (Scholar)
• Marmura, M.E., 1990, “The Fortuna of the Posterior Analytics in the Arabic Middle Ages,” in Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy, M. Asztalos, J.E. Murdoch, I. Niiniluoto (eds.), Helsinki: Acta Philosophica Fennica, v. I, pp. 85–103; repr. in Marmura 2005: 355–373. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, Probing in Islamic Philosophy, Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Academic Publishing. (Scholar)
• McGinnis, J., with the assistance of D.C. Reisman, 2004, Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• McGinnis, J., 2010, Avicenna, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Michot, Yahya (Jean R.), 1986, La destinée de l’homme selon Avicenne. Le retour à Dieu (ma‘ād) et l’imagination, Leuven: Peeters. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Ibn Sînâ. Lettre au vizir Abû Sa‘d. Editio princeps d’après le manuscrit de Bursa, traduction de l’arabe, introduction, notes et lexique [Sagesses musulmanes 4], Beirut/Paris: Al-Bouraq. (Scholar)
• Rahman, F., 1958, Prophecy in Islam, London : George Allen & Unwin; repr. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. (Scholar)
• Reisman, D.C., 2002, The Making of the Avicennan Tradition: The Transmission, Contents, and Structure of Ibn Sīnā’s al-Mubāḥaṯāt (The Discussions), Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “The Pseudo-Avicennan Corpus, I: Methodological Considerations,” in McGinnis with Reisman 2004, pp. 3–21. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “The Ps.-Avicenna Corpus II: The Ṣūfistic Turn,” in Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale,” 21: 243–258. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “The Life and Times of Avicenna. Patronage and Learning in Medieval Islam,” in Adamson 2013, pp. 7–27. (Scholar)
• Swain, S., 2013, Economy, Family, and Society from Rome to Islam, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Treiger, A. 2011. Inspired Knowledge in Islamic Thought. Al-Ghazālī’s Theory of Mystical Cognition and Its Avicennian Foundation. London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Vajda, G., 1951, “Les notes d’Avicenne sur la «Théologie d’Aristote»,” Revue Thomiste 51: 346–406. (Scholar)
• Wisnovsky, R, 2003, Avicenna’s Metaphysics in Context, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)