Avicenne (Ibn Sina)
The soul knows it exists before any body: the flying man.
The Canon of Medicine (al-Qanun fi al-tibb)
The great medical summa of its time, taught in the East and in Europe (in Latin) for six centuries. Not in our corpus.
The Book of Healing (al-Shifa') essential
A huge encyclopedia: logic, physics, mathematics, metaphysics. We quote On the Soul (with the flying man) and the Metaphysics. Translated into Latin in Toledo in the 12th century.
The Book of Salvation (al-Najat) essential
His own abridgement of the Shifa'. It contains the proof of the necessary existent from the mere fact that something exists. We quote the Arabic of a digital text whose printed edition is not identified.
Pointers and Reminders (al-Isharat wa-l-tanbihat) essential
His last major book, dense and allusive. It contains the last version of the flying man and the "proof of the truthful" for God's existence. Excerpts in Arabic, with our translation.
Autobiography (Sira), completed by al-Juzjani
Avicenna dictated the story of his youth to his disciple al-Juzjani, who completed it after his death. Our source for his life, to be read as a narrative. Not in our corpus.