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Ibn Sina

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Ibn Sina: see Avicenna Avicenna (ăvĭsĕn`ə), Arabic Ibn Sina, 980–1037, Islamic philosopher and physician, of Persian origin, b.
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Avicenna

 Arabic Ibn Sina in full Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Sina

(born 980, Bukhara, Iran—died 1037, Hamadan) Islamic philosopher and scientist. He became physician to several sultans and also twice served as vizier. His Canon of Medicine was long a standard work in the field. He is known for his great encyclopaedia of philosophy, The Book of Healing. His other writings include The Book of Salvation and The Book of Directives and Remarks. His interpretations of Aristotle influenced European Scholasticism. His system rests on a conception of God as the necessary existent: only in God do essence (what God is) and existence (that God is) coincide.



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878-950), Ibn Sina (980-1037), al-Ghazali (1058-1111), Ibn Tufayl (ca.
The photo shows the building adjacent to the Ibn Sina hospital that took a mortar through the window at 2:30 A.
Gentile's major writing, composed over most of his working life, from about 1315 until about 1345, was a detailed commentary of some three or four million words on one of the most important collections of medical treatises, the Canon of Medicine by the Persian polymath Ibn Sina, Avicenna to the Latin world (980-1037).
 
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