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

Authors : Abdullah BAŞARAN

Pages : 159-174

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Publication Date : 2015-05-15

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The Recital of The Bird is one of the allegorical treatises of Muslim philosopher Avicenna insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(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