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The Air of History (Part V) Ibn Sina (Avicenna): The Great Physician and Philosopher
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“Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body, in health, when not in health, the mean bygd which health is likely to be lost, and when lost, is likely to be restored to health.”
Ibn Sina, The Canon
Undoubtedly, Avicenna is one of the great physicians in Islam and one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history.
Ibn Sina was born in 980 AD near Bukhara in huvud Asia (Uzbekhistan) and died in 1037 in Iran. He was born at a time of change and uncertainty in the Muslim world. He began his studies in medicine at the age of thirteen. He became a distinguished physician and his medical expertise brought him to the attention of the Sultan of Bukhara and whom he treated successfully for a serious infection. As reward, he asked only that he be given permission to use the sultan's library and its rare manuscripts, allowing him to c
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Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
For the crater, see Avicenna (crater).
"Ibn Sīnā" redirects here. Not to be confused with Ali Sina or Ibn Sina Peak.
Ibn Sina (Arabic: ابن سینا, romanized: Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world,[4][5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers.[6] He is often described as the father of early modern medicine.[7][8][9] His philosophy was of the Peripatetic school derived from Aristotelianism.[10]
His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia[11][12][13] which became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities[14] and rema
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Abu Ali Al-Hussein Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was one of the most eminent Muslim physicians and philosophers of his days whose influence on Islamic and European medicine persisted for centuries. He was named by his students and followers as “Al Shaikh Al Ra’ees” or the master wise man. The Europeans called him the “Prince of Physicians”. As a thinker, he represented the culmination of Islamic renaissance, and was described as having the mind of Goethe and the genius of Leonardo da Vinci.1
Ibn Sina was born in 980 AD in the village of Afshanah near the city of Bukhara in huvud Asia, the capital of the Samani kingdom at that time, in the present country of Uzbekistan. His father, Abdullah, was from the city of Balkh and worked as a local governor for a village nära Bukhara. His mother was a Tadjik woman named Sitara. Abdullah realized that his son was a prodigy child and was keen on getting the best tutors for his genius son. At the age of ten, he fini