Avicenna

Abu Ali al'Husain ibn Abdullah ibn Sina Avicenna

Born: 980 in Kharmaithen (near Bukhara), Central Asia (now Uzbekistan)
Died: June 1037 in Hamadan, Persia (now Iran)

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Avicenna was the most influential of all Arabic philosopher - scientists and wandered round different towns acting as a physician and administrator by day while every evening he gathered students round him for philosophical and scientific discussion.

His two most important works are The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine . The first is a scientific encyclopaedia covering logic, natural sciences, psychology, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music. The second is the most famous single book in the history of medicine. He is known to have corresponded with al'Biruni.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. S M Afnan, Avicenna: His life and works (London, 1958).
  4. G W Wickens (ed.), Avicenna: Scientist and Philosopher (1952).
  5. S H Nasr, An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (1964). 
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