Presented by: Zikiryayev Yakhyokhon 114s

• Avicenna (IBN SINA) 980-1037

Presented by: Zikiryayev Yakhyokhon 114s

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• Born in 980, Abu Ali ibn Sina was born in Bukhara. In the East, Ibn Sina was know

as Avicenna

l Avicenna , was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, soldier, statesman, and teacher.

l An Emir rewarded him for his services.

To the access of the royal library of the Samanids, well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars.

His Own School Avicennism

School tradition:

Is a school of early

Islamic philosophy which began during the middle of the Islamic Golden Age.

l Founded by Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

l Attempted to redefine the course of Islamic philosophy and channel it into new directions.

Success

l Ibn Sī nā 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

l There are no incurable diseases - only the lack of will. There are no wortheless herbs -only the lack of knowledge.

l He is the author of the “Canon of medical science”

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Discoveries

The Canon of Medicine, 14-volume which was a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world up until the 18th century

A Latin copy of the Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P. I. Nixon Medical Historical Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

l The remaining ten or twelve years of Ibn Sī nā 's life were spent in the service of Abu Ja'far 'Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous campaigns.

l Literary matters and philology



       " I prefer a short life with width to a narrow                                one with length" .

v Death

v He died in June 1037, in his fifty-eighth year, and was buried in Hamedan, Iran

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