Kitab al-Najat
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Kitab al-Najat is a philosophical and scientific compendium by Avicenna that offers a concise summary of his major works on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and psychology.
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| Kitab al-Najat canonical | 1 |
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kitab al-Najat Context triple: [Avicenna, notableWork, Kitab al-Najat]
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A.
Kitab al-Tawasin
Kitab al-Tawasin is a seminal mystical and poetic work of Islamic Sufism, attributed to the famed mystic al-Hallaj and known for its esoteric reflections on divine love, unity, and martyrdom.
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B.
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn is the original Judeo-Arabic philosophical and theological treatise by Maimonides that seeks to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish religious doctrine.
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C.
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal is a spiritual and intellectual autobiography by the Muslim theologian Al-Ghazali, in which he recounts his crisis of doubt and journey through philosophy, theology, and Sufism in search of certain knowledge.
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D.
Kitab al-Saydalah
Kitab al-Saydalah is a seminal medieval Islamic pharmacological treatise that systematically catalogues drugs, their properties, and their medical uses.
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E.
Badhl al-Majhud
Badhl al-Majhud is a renowned multi-volume scholarly commentary on the hadith collection Sunan Abu Dawud, widely used in advanced Islamic studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kitab al-Najat Target entity description: Kitab al-Najat is a philosophical and scientific compendium by Avicenna that offers a concise summary of his major works on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and psychology.
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A.
Kitab al-Tawasin
Kitab al-Tawasin is a seminal mystical and poetic work of Islamic Sufism, attributed to the famed mystic al-Hallaj and known for its esoteric reflections on divine love, unity, and martyrdom.
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B.
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn is the original Judeo-Arabic philosophical and theological treatise by Maimonides that seeks to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish religious doctrine.
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C.
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal is a spiritual and intellectual autobiography by the Muslim theologian Al-Ghazali, in which he recounts his crisis of doubt and journey through philosophy, theology, and Sufism in search of certain knowledge.
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D.
Kitab al-Saydalah
Kitab al-Saydalah is a seminal medieval Islamic pharmacological treatise that systematically catalogues drugs, their properties, and their medical uses.
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E.
Badhl al-Majhud
Badhl al-Majhud is a renowned multi-volume scholarly commentary on the hadith collection Sunan Abu Dawud, widely used in advanced Islamic studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
philosophical work
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scientific compendium ⓘ |
| aim | to provide an accessible summary of Avicenna’s system ⓘ |
| author | Avicenna ⓘ |
| basedOn | Avicenna’s larger encyclopedic works ⓘ |
| circulation | widely studied in later Islamic philosophy ⓘ |
| contains |
summary of Avicenna’s logic
ⓘ
summary of Avicenna’s metaphysical system ⓘ summary of Avicenna’s natural philosophy ⓘ summary of Avicenna’s theory of the soul ⓘ |
| describedAs | concise summary of Avicenna’s major works ⓘ |
| genre |
Aristotelian philosophy
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Islamic philosophy ⓘ |
| hasForm | compendium ⓘ |
| hasPart |
logic
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metaphysics ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| hasSection |
logic section
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metaphysics section ⓘ physics section ⓘ psychology section ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | helped transmit Avicennian philosophy in a concise form ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Neoplatonism ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
epistemology
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logic and demonstration ⓘ nature of the soul ⓘ structure of reality ⓘ |
| period | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcern |
cosmology
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immortality of the soul ⓘ relationship between essence and existence ⓘ structure of demonstration in logic ⓘ |
| philosophicalSystem |
Avicenna's metaphysics
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surface form:
Avicennism
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| philosophicalTradition |
Islamic Peripatetic philosophy
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Peripatetic ⓘ |
| region | Persian intellectual tradition ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Kitāb al-Shifāʾ
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surface form:
Kitab al-Shifa
Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat ⓘ
surface form:
al-Isharat wa-l-Tanbihat
|
| subject |
logic
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metaphysics ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | Book of Salvation ⓘ |
| usedIn | madrasah curricula in later Islamic periods ⓘ |
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