STORY TELLING “BIOGRAPHY OF AVICENNA”
Ibn
Sīnā, or in Arabic writing Abū ʿAlī
al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd
Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā
or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, he is father of
modern medicine who wrote almost 450 works on a wide range of subjects, of
which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving works
concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.
His
most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific
encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at
many medieval universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a textbook in the
universities of Montpellier and Leuven as late as 1650.Ibn Sīnā's Canon of
Medicine provides an overview of all aspects of medicine according to the
principles of Galen (and Hippocrates).
His
corpus also includes writing on philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, geology,
psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, as well as poetry.He
is regarded as the most famous and influential polymath of the Islamic Golden
Age.
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