Avicenna
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Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (ابو علی الحسین ابن عبدالله ابن سینا); c. 980 in Bukhara,[1][2] Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan[3]), also known as Ibn Seena[4] and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός),[5] was a Persian[6] Muslim polymath and the most important physician and Islamic philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian.[7]
Ibn Sīnā 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.[8][9]
[change] Footnotes
- ↑ Avicenna, Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ↑ Von Dehsen, Christian D.; Scott L. Harris. Philosophers and Religious Leaders. Greenwood Press, p. 19. ISBN 1-5735-6152-5.
- ↑ [1] [2]
- ↑ Extracts from the history of Islamic pharmacy. Pharmacy History. Pharma Corner. Retrieved on 11 November 2007.
- ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Abitianus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, at 3
- ↑ "Avicenna", in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Concise Online Version, 2006 ([3]); D. Gutas, "Avicenna", in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Version 2006, (LINK); Avicenna in (Encyclopedia of Islam: © 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands)
- ↑ Charles F. Horne (1917), ed., The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East Vol. VI: Medieval Arabia, p. 90-91. Parke, Austin, & Lipscomb, New York. (cf. Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (973-1037): On Medicine, c. 1020 CE, Medieval Sourcebook.)
"Avicenna (973-1037) was a sort of universal genius, known first as a physician. To his works on medicine he afterward added religious tracts, poems, works on philosophy, on logic, as physics, on mathematics, and on astronomy. 
- ↑ O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Avicenna". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ↑ Avicenna (Abu Ali Sina)
[change] Further reading
- A good introduction to his life and philosophical thought is Avicenna by Lenn E. Goodman (Cornell University Press: 1992, updated edition 2006)
[change] Other websites
- Avicenna an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Philosophy Bites podcast interview with Peter Adamson on Avicenna.
- Avicenna An article by encyclopedia Iranica
- Biography & Works from Routledge
- Ibn Sina (Islamic Philosophy Online)
- Ibn Sina from the Encyclopedia of Islam
- Avicenna/Ibn Sina at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Physician's Day in Iran: A Reference Article on Pur Sina (Avicenna) by Manouchehr Saadat Noury
- Biography of Avicenna (in English)
- Biography of Avicenna
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Avicenna
