Listed In: Philosophers, Theologians
Birthdate: 0980 AD
Birthplace: Afshona, Uzbekistan
Died: May 31, 1037
Avicenna, a renowned philosopher and physician in the Muslim world, served in the courts of various Iranian rulers during the Islamic Golden Age. He is celebrated as the pioneer of early modern medicine, and his influential writings, including The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, were widely adopted as standard texts in medieval universities. Avicenna’s extensive body of work covered a wide range of subjects such as astronomy, alchemy, geography, and poetry, with a significant portion of his writings in Arabic and Persian. Out of the approximately 450 works attributed to him, around 240 have been preserved, focusing extensively on philosophy and medicine.
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