Ibn SĪnĀ
IBN SĪNĀ (AH 370–428/980–1037 CE), more fully Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā, kno...
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The Significance of Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine in the Arab and Western Worlds
Overview
Ibn Sina, (980-1037), whose name was Abu al-Hussayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina, was an outstanding medical wr...
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Ibn Sina
980-1037
Arab Physician and Philosopher
Known in the West as Avicenna, the Arab thinker Ibn Sina was among the most influential figures in European philosophy and science during a period of h...
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Abu 'Ali Al-Husayn Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina
980-1037
Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was the medieval Islamic world's most important philosopher-scientist. His unique codification ...
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Avicenna(980–1037)
Avicenna, whose full name was Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd-Allāh ibn Sīnā, was the most renowned and influential philos...
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Avicenna [addendum]
Avicenna played an important role in Islamic aesthetics. Poetry relies on imagination, he argues, but that does not mean it is entirely without logical structure. On the contrary, ...
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Inner Senses
The scholastic theory of the inner senses can be viewed as an attempt to explain and classify cognitive abilities shared by human beings and nonrational animals, abilities that go beyond ...
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Avicenna (ca. 980-1037) was a Persian physician and philosopher. He wove classical dicta into a rational, consistent system that dominated European medical thought from the late 12th to the 17th centu...
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Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd-Allah ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was born in Bukhara, Persia, in 980. His father had come from Balkh to Bukhara to administer some royal estates. Bukhara was ...
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Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was a highly respected Persian physician whose medical treatise, the Canon of Medicine, influenced medical practice for centuri...
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