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 Avicenna Quotes
418 words, approx. 1 pages
 Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (Persian: ابو علی الحسین ابن عبدالله ابن سینا (c. 980 in Balkh, Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan), also known as Ibn Seena and commonly known in English by his Latinized name... 
 
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Avicenna | | Birth Date: |
c. 980 | | Death Date: |
June, 1037 | | Place of Birth: |
Afshana | | Nationality: |
Persian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
physician, philosopher |
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 Biography of Avicenna
989 words, approx. 3 pages
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 century. Born in Afshana in the district of Bukhara,... summary from source:
 Biography of Avicenna
717 words, approx. 2 pages
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 centuries. He was born near Bukhara, then the capital of... summary from source:
 Biography of Avicenna
5,034 words, approx. 17 pages
 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 the tenth-century capital of the Samanids, a Persian...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Ibn Sina Summary
748 words, approx. 3 pages980-1037 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 half a millennium. As a philosopher, he played a highly... summary from source:
 Inner Senses Summary
720 words, approx. 2 pagesInner 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 pure sensation and require a certain level of... summary from source:
Abu 'Ali Al-Husayn Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina Summary
605 words, approx. 2 pages980-1037 Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was the medieval Islamic world's most important philosopher-scientist. His unique codification of traditional learning into an Aristotelian framework exerted a strong influence on scholasticism... summary from source:
Avicenna [addendum] Summary
282 words, approx. 1 pagesAvicenna [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, one can only understand poetry if it is analyzed in... summary from source:
 Avicenna Information
9,901 words, approx. 33 pages
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā (Persian: ابو علی الحسین ابن عبدالله ابن سینا; c. 980 in Bukhara,[6][7] Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan[8]), also known as Ibn Seena[9] and commonly known in English by...
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 The Review of Metaphysics Avicenna and essentialism.
06/01/2001: 10,986 words, approx. 37 pages I THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE has been taken to be central to Avicenna's metaphysics and ontology of being. Due to the influence that this distinction had on Thomism, and to a lesser extent on Maimonides's work, some Medievalists and Orientalists took... summary from source:
The Review of Metaphysics The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna. (book reviews)
03/01/1993: 405 words, approx. 1 pages The Arabic philosophical tradition followed the Alexandrian school in including both the Rhetoric and the Poetics among the logical texts. Such inclusion raised the question of the nature of poetic validity and its role in forming a community. This question was of great importance...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Fazlur Rahman
12,872 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following excerpt, Rahman surveys Avicenna's metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of religion, and briefly discusses Avicenna's influence in the East and West.
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Critical Essay by Herbert A. Davidson
8,273 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Davidson insists that, although Avicenna purports to prove God's existence based on the concept of a necessarily existent being, his ontological argument is rather a kind of cosmological proof
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Critical Essay by A. I. Sabra
6,675 words, approx. 22 pages
Here, Sabra outlines Avicenna's influential conception of logic as a part of philosophy that can lead one to "knowledge of the unknown. "
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