This website is devoted to Bahmanyār, an eleventh-century Peripatetic philosopher best known as a disciple of Ibn Sīnā and the author of al-Taḥṣīl (The Obtainment), a comprehensive work treating the major branches of medieval philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, and physics. Although Bahmanyār occupies an important place in the history of philosophy in the Islamic world, particularly as one of the earliest thinkers to compile a philosophical summa of this kind, he has thus far received only limited scholarly attention. His extant works have been only partially studied and translated, and none has yet been established in a critical edition.
At a time when knowledge is increasingly produced, transmitted, and accessed through digital rather than printed media, this website seeks to provide an open and reliable scholarly resource dedicated to Bahmanyār and his writings. Its principal aim is to make his works available online for the benefit of specialists while also introducing them to a broader readership.
The project is intended to develop gradually in three principal phases, including the tasks mentioned below.
Phase I – The current phase
• General information on Bahmanyār: his life, works, the inventory of manuscripts, and the relevant scholarly literature;
• Transcriptions of all texts attributed to him.
Phase II
• Annotated English translations of these texts;
• A glossary of philosophical terminology, visual indexes, conceptual maps, and synoptic tables.
Phase III
• Database of the digitised manuscripts of Bahmanyār’s works;
• Online critical editions of these works.
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