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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

ابن سينا

Abbasid era · 980–1037 CE

A physician-philosopher whose Canon of Medicine remained a standard medical text in Europe for centuries.

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Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was an 11th-century physician and philosopher whose Canon of Medicine systematically organised medical knowledge of his time and served as a standard textbook in European universities for several centuries. His philosophical works also had a profound and lasting influence on both Islamic and Western thought.