Avicenna
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Science, Medicine, Health, Law, Legal History, Courts, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Teaching, Teachers, Scientists, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology, Islam, Muslims, Mosques
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History
Article abstract: Avicenna was the first Islamic thinker to synthesize the philosophy of Aristotle and Plato with Islamic traditions. His writings on medicine were studied in Europe as late as the seventeenth century.
Early Life
Abu ‘Ali al-Husain ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Sina was born in 980 to Abd-Allah of Balkh (now in Afghanistan), the well-to-do governor of an outlying province under Samanid ruler Nuh II ibn Mansur. Avicenna may have descended from a Turkish family on his father’s side, but his mother, Sitara, was clearly Iranian.
After his...
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