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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 by 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 Central 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 continue his research. He was associated with multiple short-lived sultanates, but relocated often, s

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 remained in use as late as 1650.[15] Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includ

Ibn Sina is known Europeans by the name of Avicenna.

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Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna to Europeans, was an influential Persian polymath and scientist from the 10th century. He made significant contributions to early modern medicine through works like The Canon of Medicine, which was used as a standard medical textbook in Europe and the Middle East for centuries. Ibn Sina produced over 200 works spanning philosophy, medicine, mathematics, astronomy and more during his lifetime. As one of the most significant thinkers and scientists of the Islamic Golden Age, Ibn Sina synthesized Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas and helped transmit classical Greek and Islamic knowledge to medieval Europe.

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Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna to Europeans, was an influential Persian polymath and scientist from the 10th century. He made significant contributions to early modern medicine t

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