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Avicenna

Also known as Pūr-i Sīnā, Aboû Alî al-Hosain ibn Abdallâh ibn Sînâ, Abitianus, Ibn Sīnā, Alraaʼys Ibn sīnā

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.

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Avicenna was a male philosopher, poet, astronomer, and physician born in 980 in Afshona. He lived during the Islamic Golden Age and the Shi'a Century, adhering to Islam. His professional fields included medicine, aromatherapy, philosophy, and logic. He served as a vizier and resided in Ray, Bukhara, Urgench, and Gorgan. He spoke Arabic and Persian.

He authored notable works such as the *Canon of Medicine*, *The Book of Healing*, and *Al-isharat wa al-tanbihat*. His writings were influenced by Al-Biruni, Plotinus, Muhammad, and Galen. His work appears in *The Divine Comedy*. Avicenna died on 1037-06-18 in Hamadan and is buried at the Avicenna Mausoleum. He is described in sources including *The Catholic Encyclopedia* and the *Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 980
Died: 1037
Works: 600

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الشفاء
ظفرنامه
Risālah fī amr al-hindibāʾ
كتاب القانون في الطب
Avicenna's conception of miracles

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Type: Group
Origin: Estonia
Active from: 1985
Active to: 1990

Discography

Sergei Manukjan & Avicenna1989

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Total plays: 64

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 more on Last.fm</a>

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Philosopher.name: Avicenna
Philosopher.native_name: ابن سینا
Philosopher.native_name_lang: ar
Philosopher.image: Avicenna Bust, left profile (cropped).jpg
Philosopher.caption: Modern portrait of Ibn Sina, National Library of Medicine (1952)
Philosopher.monuments: Avicenna Mausoleum
Philosopher.birth_place: Afshana, Transoxiana, Samanid Empire
Philosopher.death_place: Hamadan, Kakuyid Emirate
Philosopher.region: Middle Eastern philosophy Persian philosophy
Philosopher.era: Islamic Golden Age
Philosopher.main_interests: Philosophy and logic Kalām (Islamic theology)
Philosopher.notable_works: The Book of Healing The Canon of Medicine
Philosopher.school_tradition: Aristotelianism, Avicennism

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Hussein
Gender: male
Place of birth: Afshona
Place of death: Hamadan
Occupation: polymath
Position held: vizier
Languages spoken: Persian
Native language: Persian
Religion: Islam
Notable work: Al-isharat wa al-tanbihat
Field of work: mechanics
Image: Pursina.jpg
Residence: Isfahan

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Commons category: Avicenna
date of birth: 0980-00-00
date of death: 1037-00-00
Commons Creator page: Avicenna
topic's main category: Category:Avicenna
influenced by: Farabi
time period: Shi'a Century
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place of burial: Avicenna Mausoleum
present in work: The Divine Comedy
name: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن الحسن بن علي بن سينا
name in native language: الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا
student: Ali ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi
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birth name: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن الحسن بن علي بن سينا
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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Avicenna, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

“mr hšr”bw“ly”lḥsyn kn“”br' llh bn syny h'l šbḥ r'wy lw kpy m'lḥ ṭb'w whplgt hṭbtw....

Artis chemicae principles Avicenna, atque Geber, hoc volumine continentur, quorum alter nunquam haceld in lucem prodiit, alter vero vetustis exemplaribus collatus...

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Abu Ali Alsheich Ibn Sina vulgo Avicenna Canon medicinae cum aliis opusculis

Index in Avicennae libros nvper Venetiis editos qui sane nouo quodam ordine commoditatis et vtilitatis pleno, adeo contextus est, vt nihil, melius desiderari queat [...] Iulio Palamede Adriensi medico auctore

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Avicennae Canon

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Ant. Mariae Betti Mutinensis, philosophi, ac medici doctissimi ... In IIII. fen primi Canonis Avic. Commentarius doctissimus [Texto impreso]

[Miscellaneous of Moorish Texts on Magic and Medicine] [Manuscript]

Al-ururūzaAl-[ fAl-al-Al-ibb] [Manuscript]

Liber Canonis De Medicinis cordialibus Cantica De Remouendis nocumentis in regimine sanitatis De Syrupo acetoso. Quorum priores tres, primo quidem Andreas Alpago ... emendationibus, ac Indice nominum Arabicorum ... ornauerat. Postae vero Benedictus Rini lucubrationibus decoraverat ... His accepit Vita Anicenne ex Abu Ubaid Abd-al-Wahid ibn Muhammad al Juzjani a Nicolas Massa sumpta et latine scripta.

Libri in re medica omnes, qui hactenus ad nos peruenere ... nouissime post aliorum omnium operam a Joanne Paulo Mongio et Joanne Costaeo recognita ... Adiecti etiam postremo loco sunt Indices quatuor Duoquidem veluti Arabicae linguae promptuarua, antiquum unum a Gerardo Carmonensi, ut videtur: alterum vero postea a (Andrea Alpago) Bellunensi editum etc.

Liber Canonis, De Medicinis cordialibus, et cantica. Cum castigationibus Andreae Alpago, una cum eiusdem nominum arabicorum interpretatione (etc.)

Liber secundus de canone canonis

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Encyclopedic overview

51 sections

Contents

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

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.

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