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Abū Alī al-Husayn ibn Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā (980, Afshana near Bukhara– 1037, Hamadan, Iran), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.
His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650. Ibn Sīnā's Canon of Medicine provides a complete system of medicine according to the principles of Galen (and Hippocrates).
He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic psychologist, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, mathematician, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, and scientist. He is regarded as the most famous and influential polymath of the Islamic Golden Age.
List of works:
This is the list of some of Avicenna's well-known works:
» Sirat al-shaykh al-ra’is (The Life of Ibn Sina)
» Al-Isharat wa-‘l-tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions)
» Al-Qanun fi’l-tibb (The Canon of Medicine)
» Risalah fi sirr al-qadar (Essay on the Secret of Destiny)
» Danishnama-i ‘ala’i (The Book of Scientific Knowledge
» Kitab al-Shifa’ (The Book of Healing)
» Kitab al-Najat (The Book of Salvation)
» Hayy ibn Yaqdhan a Persian myth.