this article reviews the commentary tradition around the metaphysics of avicenna’s shifā’ as it evolved in the lands that belonged to avicenna’s own cultural horizon, most of all in iran. from this overview it emerges that this tradition is characterized by a keen interest  in textual criticism and a solid philosophical grasp of avicenna’s metaphysical doctrines. this interest is reflected in t...


 The paper aims at providing a comprehensive description of the manuscript Rampur, Rampur Raza Library 3476 (ḥikma 112), which contains three four main parts Avicenna’s philosophical magnum opus, Kitāb al-Šifāʾ (the Book Cure or: Healing). This documents important developments in history Arabic-Islamic philosophy. First, it attests precise intellectual genealogy within influential Daštakī...