Metaphors Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction: A Textual Analysis of Avicenna’s the Recital of the Bird

Year 2015, Issue: 30, 159 - 174, 15.05.2015

Abdullah Başaran

Abstract

The Recital of The Bird is one of the allegorical treatises of
Muslim philosopher Avicenna (also known Ibn Sīnā). As much as this short
epistle is vital to unravel Avicenna’s ontological hierarchy between the God
and the universe and his cosmological view, it has a great influence on many
Islamic philosophers and scholars. Moreover, with the other two spectacular
recitals, Hayy ibn Yaqzan and Salaman and Absal, the Recital of the Bird constitutes the core figures and ideas of
later philosopher Ibn Tufayl’s philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqzan.

Keywords

Metaphors, Recital of the Bird

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