Ketab ghanoon abo ali sina biography

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

For the crater, see Avicenna (crater).

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Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا, romanized: Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world,^[4][5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers.^[6] He is often described as the father of early modern medicine.^[7][8][9] His philosophy was of the Peripatetic school derived from Aristotelianism.^[10]

His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia^[11][12][13] which became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities^[14] and rem