Medieval Confluences Series, Vol. 2

An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina: Second Supplement (1995-2009)

Forthcoming 2013

The original Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sina – covering 1970 to 1989 – was published in 1991 by Leuven University Press, and the First Supplement – covering 1990 to 1994 – was published in 1999 by the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études médiévales. The Second Supplement will cover fifteen years of research on Ibn Sina (1995 to 2009) and will deal with publications that appeared not only in the West, but also elsewhere in the world.
This bibliography not only annotates or summarizes each single publication, but it also identifies and highlights each publication's most innovative ideas and assesses its specific contributions to scholarship in a brief but clear and succinct way. Unlike a bibliography that merely offers titles of publications, this annotated work aims to give as complete and as correct as possible idea of what has been published on Ibn Sina in all European languages (especially English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Greek ) as well as in Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Russian, Hungarian, Hindi, and Hebrew. It covers all fields of Avicenna's thought – not only logic and philosophy, but also the sciences and medicine. Much attention is paid to sources and influences, and, above all, to editions and translations.