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Avicenna

"Avicenna" is the Latinate form of Ibn Sīnā. For the mountain peak known by this name, see Ibn Sīnā Peak.

Avicenna
(Ibn Sīnā  ابن سینا)

Conventional modern portrait (on a silver vase,Avicenna Mausoleum and Museum, Hamadan)
Other names	Sharaf al-Mulk   Hujjat al-Haq   Sheikh al-Rayees   Ibn-Sino (Abu Ali Abdulloh Ibn-Sino)   Bu Alī Sīnā (بو علی سینا)
Born	c. 980 CE Afshona, Peshkunskiy, Bukhara, Samanid Empire
Died	June 1037 (aged 56–57) Hamadān, Kakuyid Emirate
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Region	Samanid Empire[1] Ziyarid Tabaristan[2] Buyid Persia[3]
Main interests	Medicine   Aromatherapy Philosophy and logic Kalām (Islamic theology) Science   Poetry
Major works	The Book of Healing The Canon of Medicine
Influenced by Hippocrates   Aristotle   Galen   Neoplatonism   al-Kindi   al-Farabi   Rhazes   Al-Biruni   al-Masihi   Abul Hasan Hankari
Influenced Al-Biruni   Omar Khayyám   Averroes   Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi   Tusi   Ibn al-Nafis   Albertus Magnus   Maimonides   Aquinas   William of Ockham   Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani   Enlightenment philosophers

Avicenna (/ˌævɨˈsɛnə/; latinized form of Ibn-Sīnā, Arabic full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā^[4] أبو علي الحسين ابن عبد الله ابن سينا; c. 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.^[5]

Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 onphilosophy and 40 on medicine.^[6]

His most famous works are The Book of Healing – a philosophical and scientificencyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine – amedical encyclopedia.^[7][8][9] which became a standard medical text at many medievaluniversities^[10] and remained in use as late as 1650.^[11] In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York.^[12]

Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy,alchemy, geography and geology, psychology,Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physicsand poetry.^[13]