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  Avicenna
Avicenna, or in Arabic, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina or simply Ibn Sina (as he is called by Persians) (980 - 1037), was a physician, philosopher, and scientist.
Ibn Sina was interested in the effect of the mind on the body, and wrote a great deal on psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl[?] and Ibn Bajjah[?].
bü ‘Au al-Husain ibn ‘Abdallãh ibn SInä] (980—103 7), Arabian philosopher, was born at Afshena in the district of Bokhara.
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 Comparative Index to Islam : IBN SINA (Avicenna)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (known in the west as Avicenna), was born in 980 in Kharmaithen (near Bukhara), in Uzbekistan.
Ibn Sina was born into a middle class family and his father was the governor of a village in one of Nuh ibn Mansur's estates.
Ibn Sina began studying medicine when he was thirteen and mastered the subject by the age of sixteen, when he began his practice.
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 Avicenna biography
Ibn Sina is often known by his Latin name of Avicenna, although most references to him today have reverted to using the correct version of ibn Sina.
As ibn Sina considered music as one of the branches of mathematics it is fitting to give a brief indication of his work on this topic which was mainly on tonic intervals, rhythmic patterns, and musical instruments.
Ibn Sina is known to have corresponded with al-Biruni.
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 Ibn Sina
When ibn Sina reached the age of thirteen he began to study medicine and he had mastered that subject by the age of sixteen when he began to treat patients.
After ibn Sina had cured the Samanid ruler of an illness, as a reward, he was allowed to use the Royal Library of the Samanids which proved important for ibn Sina's development in the whole range of scholarship.
Ibn Sina writes on certain topics in philosophy, and writes letters to students who must have asked him to explain difficulties they have encountered in some classic text.
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 Avicenna - Crystalinks
Ibn Sina was put under the charge of a tutor, and his precocity soon made him the marvel of his neighbours; he displayed exceptional intellectual behavior and was a Child prodigy who had memorized the Koran by the age of 10 and a great deal of Persian poetry as well.
Ibn Sina subsequently settled at Rai, in the vicinity of modern Tehran, (present day capital of Iran), the home town of Rhazes; where Majd Addaula, a son of the last emir, was nominal ruler under the regency of his mother (Seyyedeh Khatun).
On the death of the amir, Ibn Sina ceased to be vizier and hid himself in the house of an apothecary, where, with intense assiduity, he continued the composition of his works.
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The course of ibn Sina's life was dominated by the period of great political instability through which he lived.
By the time ibn Sina was born, Nuh ibn Mansur was the Sultan in Bukhara but he was struggling to retain control of the empire.
Ibn Sina's father was the governor of a village in one of Nuh ibn Mansur's estates.
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 Avicenna Avicenna or in Arabic Abu Ali al Husain ibn Abdallah...
Avicenna "Avicenna", or in Arabic, "Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina" or simply "Ibn Sina" (as he is called by Persians) (980 980 - 1037 1037), was a physician, philosopher, and scientist.
Sina is comparable to such physician greats as Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi himself.
Ibn Sina was interested in the effect of the mind on the body, and wrote a great deal on psychology psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Bajjah Ibn Bajjah.
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 The Modern Magazine for Persian Weddings, Cuisine, Culture & Community
Young Abu Ali studied in Bukhara, and by age 10 had mastered the verses of the Koran and studied the science and Greek philosophy.
Abu Ali Sina's major contribution to medical science included a his book the al-Qanun, known as the "Canon" in the West.
Ibn Sina also included his own reseaerch and medical studies, including the discovery of the contagious nature of phthisis and tuberculosis; distribution of diseases by water and soil, and the links between human health and psychology.
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 Avicenna - Iran's Great mathematician and Philosopher, Ibn Sina wrote on on medicine as well as geometry, astronomy, ...
M A Akhadova, Some works of Ibn Sina in mathematics and physics (Russian), in Mathematics and astronomy in the works of Ibn Sina, his contemporaries and successors (Tashkent, 1981), 41-47; 156.
B A Tulepbaev, The scholar- encyclopedist of the medieval Orient Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (Russian), Vestnik Akad.
A U Usmanov, Ibn Sina and his contributions in the history of the development of the mathematical sciences (Russian), in Mathematics and astronomy in the works of Ibn Sina, his contemporaries and successors (Tashkent, 1981), 55-58; 156.
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 Avicenna
Arabian doctor and philosopher, was born at Afshena in the district of Bukhara.
His mother was a native of the place; his father, a Persian from Balkh, filled the post of tax collector in the neighboring town of Harmaitin, under Nuh II ibn Mansur, the Samanid amir of Bukhara.
His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessors Rhazes and Ali; all present the doctrine of Galen, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of Aristotle.
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 Avicenna - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
See also: History of medicine, Early Muslim medicine, Muslim psychology, Muslim philosophy, Mutazilite The following was taken from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
AVICENNA bŸ ÔAu al-Husain ibn ÔAbdall‹h ibn SInŠ] (980Ñ103 7), Arabian philosopher, was born at Afshena in the district of Bokhara.
During these years he began to study literary matters and philology, instigated, it is asserted, by criticisms on his style.
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 abu - OneLook Dictionary Search
ABU : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
ABU : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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 TDR news: 2005 Avicenna prize for ethics in science
Our warmest congratulations to Dr Abdallah S Daar, who was awarded UNESCO’s 2005 Avicenna prize for ethics in science.
The Avicenna Prize, named after the renowned 11th-century physician and philosopher of medieval Islam Abu Ali al-Husain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina (known in Europe as Avicenna), is awarded every two years.
The prize is intended to reward individuals and groups who are active in the field of ethics in science, and is expected to help increase international awareness and highlight the importance of ethics in science.
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It must be kept in mind however that the vast majority of old alchemists, being self-taught and more bent on experimenting than writing, have left no trace in history.
Geber / Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan (721-815)
Avicenna - Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (985-1037)
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 Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
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 Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina- WordWeb dictionary definition
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina- WordWeb dictionary definition
Noun: Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina
Persian philosopher and physician; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
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 AVICENNA
In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.
His many books include most recently Islamic Humanism, In Defense of Truth: A Pluralistic Approach, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age, and God of Abraham.
Goodman is also the translator of such Arabic classics as Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and The Case of the Animals vs Man before the King of the Jinn.
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