EARLY EXEGETICAL PRACTICE ON AVICENNA'S SIFA,: FAḪR AL-DIN AL-RAZI'S MARGINALIA TO LOGIC

Nine manuscripts preserving Avicenna's Kitab al-Sifa, share a set of identical marginal glosses to the section of Logic. One of these manuscripts reports, at the end of each of the glosses, a certificate of transmission ascribing them to the theologian and philosopher Faḫr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606H/1210), which provides some material evidence of the existence of a flourishing exegetical activity on the Kitab al-Sifa, during the twelfth-thirteenth century, in spite of the apparent lack of commentaries on the text in that period. The present paper provides an edition of the so far unknown hasiyat to Avicenna's Kitab al-Sifa, by al-Razi, with an attempt at reconstructing their tradition and contextualizing them within al-Razi's exegetical and teaching activity.