İbn-i Sina'nın "el-Kasidetü'l-Ayniyye" İsimli Eseri

As one of Avicenna's symbolic works, el-Kasîdetü'l-Ayniyye is an important eulogy on the grounds that it reflects his views on the soul. Although not widely known, the eulogy is especially considered invaluable owing to its symbolic style. The purpose of the present study is to decipher the content of the eulogy in a way that is closest to the original copy by comparing and contrasting existing versions of the eulogy. This study uses the copy from the Ali Emirî Collection available at Millet Kütü-phanesi in Istanbul, Turkey. This copy is the oldest version of the eulogy that we could retrieve during our analysis. This study also describes the currently available ten versions of the eulogy and pinpoints the differences among those versions.