Panel: ESOTERICISM AND OCCULT SCIENCES IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT: THEOLOGIANS, EXEGETES, PHILOSOPHERS AND MYSTICS COMPARED



472.6 - "AVICENNA'S PSEUDEPIGRAPHIC WORKS ON THE OCCULT SCIENCES IN PERSIANATE CONTEXT"

AUTHORS:
Panzeca I. (University of Palermo ~ Palermo ~ Italy)
Text:
This paper will examine the Persian manuscript tradition of some pseudepigraphic works, concerning magic, alchemy and prophecy, originally written in Arabic and attributed to Avicenna. The authenticity of these treatises has been denied by several scholars and, although they are mostly considered spurious, they nevertheless remain important testimonia for the history of the transmission of the texts. This corpus into Persian is also valuable source for the reception of Avicenna's thought and for the perception of it over the centuries.