Reading Avicenna\u2019s Kit\u101b al-\u160if\u101\u2be in the Ottoman world: the circulation of the work within the school of As\u2bfad al-Y\u101nyaw\u12b

The present paper focuses on two manuscripts preserving the section of logic (\u11fumlat al-man\u1e6diq) of Avicenna\u2019s Kit\u101b al-\u160if\u101\u2be (namely mss. \u130stanbul, S\ufcleymaniye k\ufct\ufcphanesi, Rag\u131p Pa\u15fa 909 and At\u131f Efendi 1565), whose production and circulation have to be connected to the circle of As\u2bfad Ibn \u2bfAl\u12b Ibn \u2bfU\u1e6fm\u101n al-Y\u101nyaw\u12b (d. 1143 H/1730) in the madrasa of Ab\u16b Ayy\u16bb al-An\u1e63\u101r\u12b in Constantinople. Firstly, it will be argued that both manuscripts can provide new insights into the intellectual production within the school of As\u2bfad al-Y\u101nyaw\u12b. In fact, they preserve a huge amount of marginalia, among which some yet unstudied glosses by al-Y\u101nyaw\u12b himself on Avicenna\u2019s \u160if\u101\u2be, and some quotations of certain newly discovered works by al-Y\u101nyaw\u12b. Secondly, it will be claimed that both manuscripts also preserve a set of marginalia which attests a thirteenth-century exegetical activity on Avicenna\u2019s \u160if\u101\u2be, so that the two manuscripts are themselves precious witnesses for the Ottoman reception of a much earlier exegetical tradition on the text