Avicenna
Sign in to saveIbn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
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Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was a highly influential Persian philosopher and physician who lived during the Islamic Golden Age and worked for various Iranian rulers. His ideas significantly shaped both medieval European medicine and philosophy, making him one of the most important intellectual figures of his time.
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- Born
- 980
- Died
- 1037
- Works
- 600
Top works
- الشفاء
- ظفرنامه
- Risālah fī amr al-hindibāʾ
- كتاب القانون في الطب
- Avicenna's conception of miracles
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Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā(Persian پورسينا Pur-e Sina [ˈpuːre ˈsiːnɑː] "son of Sina"; c. 980, Afshana near Bukhara– 1037, Hamadan, Iran), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Avicenna">Read mor
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51 sectionsContents
- Name
- Historical context
- Biography
- Early life and education
- Career
- In Bukhara and Gurganj
- In Gorgan
- In Ray and Hamadan
- In Isfahan
- Philosophy
- Metaphysical doctrine
- Impossibility, contingency, necessity
- Differentia
- Reception
- Argument for God's existence
- Al-Biruni correspondence
- Theology
- Thought experiments
- Principal works
- ''The Canon of Medicine''
- ''Liber Primus Naturalium''
- ''The Book of Healing''
- Earth sciences
- Philosophy of science
- Logic
- Physics
- Psychology
- Other contributions
- Astronomy and astrology
- Chemistry
- Poetry
- Legacy
- Classical Islamic civilization
- Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Modern reception
- In popular culture
- List of works
- Persian works
- See also
- Namesakes of Ibn Sina
- References
- Citations
- Notes
- Sources
- Further reading
- Encyclopedic articles
- Primary literature
- Secondary literature
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- External links
Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Often described as the father of early modern medicine, Avicenna's most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities and remained in use as late as 1650.