Avicenna(980–1037) Avicenna, whose full name was Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd-Allāh ibn Sīnā, was the most renowned and influential philosopher of medieval Islam. He was a Persian, born near...

IBN SĪNĀ (AH 370–428/980–1037 CE), more fully Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā, known in Latin as Avicenna; Muslim philosopher and physician. Ibn...

Ibn Sina, (980-1037), whose name was Abu al-Hussayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina, was an outstanding medical writer and physician. His Al-Quanun fi al-Tibb, was a masterpiece of Arabic systemization, in which he sought to collate and organize all known...

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 half a millennium. As a philosopher, he played a highly...

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 pure sensation and require a certain level of...

980-1037 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...

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, one can only understand poetry if it is analyzed in...

(980–1037), philosopher, scientist, physician. Ibn Sina was a philosopher, scientist, and physician better known in the West as Avicenna. His full name was Abu ʿAli al-Husain ibn Sina. Ibn Sina was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, in 980 CE...

(born 980, Bukhara, Iran—died 1037, Hamadan) Islamic philosopher and scientist. He became physician to several sultans and also twice served as vizier. His Canon of Medicine was long a standard work in the field. He is known for his great...

AbÅ« Ê¿AlÄ« al-á'¤usayn ibn Ê¿Abd AllÄh ibn SÄ«nÄ (Persian: اب٠عÙ"Û Ø§Ù"حسÛ٠اب٠عبداÙ"Ù"٠اب٠سÛÙا; c. 980 in Bukhara,[6][7] Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan[8]), also known as Ibn Seena[9] and commonly known in English by...