Iran University Press released a new comprehensive bibliography of works written by and on Avicenna (Ibn Sina) in English.
Compiled
by Ramin Khanbagi, the book is made of two main chapters respectively on
Avicenna's works and Works on Ibn Sina as well as Book and Name indexes.
Ibn
Sina known as Avicenne (French) and Avicenna (English and German) is
world-known for his scientific and medical achievements. As stated in the
preface, Ibn Sina has had a deep influence on the West when two of his
important books "The Canon" and "The Healing" were
introduced to Europe during the first Renaissance. "The Canon was first
fully translated into Latin, between 1150-1187 by Gerard de Cremona, though
close to eighty renderings of it has been done partially."
In
this volume Khanbagi offers an enlarged and updated bibliography of Avicenna
literature found in the west. The first chapter titled "IbnSina
(Avicenna)'s Works" offers 326 records of his texts translated into
different languages of the world from the 15th to the 21st century. The second
chapter titled "Works on IbnSina" that also forms the main body of
the book offers 2342 records of all works written about Avicenna throughout the
academic and non-academic world and in different languages. This is followed
with an alphabetic order of Book Index providing the titles and information of
all volumes cited in this book. The last part is the Name Index.
The
first issue of "Ibn Sina: a comprehensive bibliography completely revised
and enlarged" is penned by Ramin Khanbagi and published by Iran University
Press in 500 copies and 600 pages.
Source:
IBNA News Agency