From Imam Reza’s Library at Astan Quds Razavi
AVICENNA ON THEOLOGY
WISDOM OF THE EAST SERIES
THE WISDOM OF THE EAST SERIES
EDITED BY J. L. CRANMER-BYNG, M.C.
Also by Professor Arberry
in the Wisdom of the East Series
THE SPIRITUAL PHYSICK OF RHAZES
By
ARTHUR J. ARBERRY, LITT.D., F.B.A.
Fellow of Pembroke College and
Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic
in the University of Cambridge
Foreign Books Hall at the Astan Quds Razavi Library
Stacked Printed Books
- Number: 822
- Date:
John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, W.
First Edition · · 1951
Made and Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London
CONTENTS
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AVICENNA.
- BIOGRAPHY OF AVICENNA (IN CONTINUATION OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY)
- ON THE NATURE OF GOD.
- PREDESTINATION
- ON PROPHECY
- ON PRAYER
- THE AFTER-LIFE
- POEM OF THE SOUL
- INDEX
A very berif Summary of the Book
Book Cover to Contents by Christopher
Editorial Note
Introduction
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AVICENNA.
Biography of Avicenna
On the Nature of God
Predestinatin
On Prophecy
On Prayer
The After-Life
POEM OF THE SOUL
Read a Summary of The Book of Avicenna On Theology here:
Avicenna’s “On Theology” establishes a rational framework for Islamic philosophy, first proving God’s existence as the Necessary Being and the metaphysical necessity of prophecy for societal and spiritual law. He then delineates a path to salvation, where the soul’s ultimate happiness is achieved not through bodily pleasures but through intellectual and moral perfection, leading to union with the Divine. This journey is framed by his allegorical interpretation of religious practices, which possess an outer form for the masses and an inner, philosophical truth for the elite, with the afterlife delivering spiritual happiness or misery based on the soul’s attained intellect and proximity to God.