Avicenna

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Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."

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instanceOf Islamic Golden Age scholar
Persian philosopher
human
medieval physician
philosopher
physician
polymath
birthDate c. 980
birthName Avicenna self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ibn Sina
birthPlace Bukhara, Uzbekistan
surface form: Afshana, near Bukhara
contributedTo development of clinical pharmacology
medical education in medieval universities
systematization of Aristotelian philosophy
deathDate June 1037
deathPlace Hamadan
surface form: Hamadān
era Medieval philosophy
ethnicity Persian
field astronomy
chemistry
logic
mathematics
medicine
metaphysics
music theory
philosophy
fullName Avicenna self-linksurface differs
surface form: Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina
givenName Hussein
surface form: Husayn
honorificPrefix Abu Ali
influenced Albert the Great
surface form: Albertus Magnus

Islamic philosophy
Latin scholasticism
Maimonides
Suhrawardi
St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
influencedBy Aristotle
Galen
Neoplatonism
Al-Farabi
surface form: al-Farabi
language Arabic
Persian
latinizedName Avicenna self-link
mainInterest astronomy
logic
mathematics
medicine
metaphysics
natural philosophy
philosophy
psychology
theology
notableWork Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat
Kitab al-Najat
The Book of Healing
The Canon of Medicine
occupation court physician
vizier
philosophicalConcept Necessary Existent
distinction between essence and existence
floating man thought experiment
region Islamic Golden Age
religion Islam
residence Bukhara, Uzbekistan
surface form: Bukhara

Hamadan
surface form: Hamadān

Isfahan
Ray
schoolTradition Aristotelianism
surface form: Avicennism

Islamic philosophy
Peripatetic school
surface form: Peripatetic philosophy
workCharacterization The Book of Healing is a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia
The Canon of Medicine
surface form: The Canon of Medicine served as a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world for centuries

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Ihsa al-Ulum influenced Avicenna
this entity surface form: Ibn Sina
Enumeration of the Sciences influenced Avicenna
this entity surface form: Ibn Sina
The Book of Healing author Avicenna
Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat author Avicenna
this entity surface form: Ibn Sina
Kitab al-Najat author Avicenna
The Book of Healing is a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia author Avicenna
subject surface form: The Book of Healing
The Book of Healing is a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia author Avicenna
subject surface form: The Book of Healing
this entity surface form: Ibn Sina
Ibn Bajjah influencedBy Avicenna
this entity surface form: Ibn Sina
Abu Ali refersTo Avicenna
Abu Ali givenName Avicenna
subject surface form: Avicenna
this entity surface form: Ibn Sina