# SEP prints Avicenna’s prophet-legislator as the political peak of the Shifa

Date: 2016

## The fact

The 15 September 2016 Stanford Encyclopedia Ibn Sina entry, with the metaphysics companion, prints the received political-theology: a prophet as lawgiver whose imagination and intellect found a city. The dated public English is SEP. A prophet-legislator heading is not a ballot. It privileges revealed law over civic argument.

## Context

Natural-philosophy publicity in the same opera is a separate access gain. High confidence on the encyclopedia text, medium on later constitutional coefficients.

[Avicenna](/people/avicenna) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

A printed prophet-legislator is a civic-resilience cost: law arrives as a gift, not as a vote.

A printed prophet-legislator is a civic-resilience cost: law arrives as a gift, not as a vote.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina-metaphysics/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-prophet-legislator-shifa