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The preface explains the philological approach, including a stemma codicum based on thirty-four manuscripts, the twelfth-century Latin translation, and quotations in early students’ works. It also outlines two introductions: one on Avicenna’s theory of predicables and inquiry methods, and one on transmission history, emphasizing the balance of tradition and innovation.","Silvia Di Vincenzo  \nAvicenna, The Healing, Logic: Isagoge  \nScientia Graeco-Arabica  \nHerausgegeben von Marwan Rashed  \nBand 31  \nSilvia Di Vincenzo  \nAvicenna, The Healing, Logic: Isagoge  \nA New Edition, English Translation and Commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ  \nISBN 978-3-11-072668-8  \ne-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-072656-5 ISSN 1868-7172  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2020952369  \nBibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek  \nThe Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at [http://dnb.dnb.de](http://dnb.dnb.de).  \n© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck Printed in Germany  \n[www.degruyter.com](www.degruyter.com)  \nPreface  \nPhilologically reliable editions of some of the central philosophical texts from the Islamicate world are still missing. As Dimitri Gutas warned around a decade ago1, this general assessment is also true of the major works of the most renowned and influential Muslim philosopher of all times, Abū Alī al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdallāh b. Sīnā(d. 428H/1037), known in the Latin West as Avicenna. In recent years, some projects have started with the aim of producing philologically reliable editions of Avicenna’s major summae, or of their parts: among them, the project of editing the section on Metaphysics (Ilāhiyyāt) of the Kitāb al-Šifāʾ directed by Amos Bertolacci (ERC Project PhiBor2) and Joep Lameer’s work on the edition of the Kitāb al-Išārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt3. By ‘philologically reliable’ editions, I do not exclusively refer here to fully critical editions – that is, editions based on the entire known manuscript tradition of the work. As the analytical recognition of the manuscripts of the Ilāhiyyāt of the Šifāʾ has demonstrated, Avicenna’s major summae can be preserved in hundreds of extant manuscript witnesses (in the case of the Ilāhiyyāt, more than 280), which makes the task of critically editing the text really challenging, to say the least.  \nAs a partial contribution to fill this gap, this book offers a new edition, accompanied by an English translation and a commentary, of the opening work of the Book of Healing (Kitāb al-Šifāʾ), namely the Kitāb al-Madḫal, which represents Avicenna’s most complete and extensive reworking of Porphyry’s (d. 305?) Isagoge. The text is established with the help of a stemma codicum that includes thirty-four manuscripts (eleven of which are codices descripti), the twelfth-century Latin translation, and the literal and quasi-literal quotations found in the works by two of Avicenna’s first and second-generation students, Bahmanyār and Lawkarī . The manuscripts employed in the present edition were selected after a systematic recognition, which has revealed the existence of at least 118 manuscript witnesses of the Madḫal. Two introductions precede the critical text: a ‘General Introduction’ that focuses on the traditional and innovative aspects of Avicenna’s theory of predicables, as well as on Avicenna’s methods of inquiry adopted in the Madḫal, and an‘Introduction to the edition’ that deals with the transmission history of this work.  \nMy choice fell on the first section (fann) of the Šifāʾ, Avicenna’s philosophical masterpiece, because it is part of one of the richest and most peculiar philosophical summae by this author. Its peculiarity is given by the delicate balance between tradition and innovation, which is more evident in it than in any other Avicennian summa. 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