Avicenna (ابْن سِينَا)

Avicenna is the name by which the Muslim philosopher and physician Ibn Sina (Afshana, near Bukhara, 980 – Hamadan 1037) is known in the West. Of Iranian descent, Avicenna displayed an eclectic propensity for the study of various disciplines from an early age. Among his works, written in Arabic, the best-known is The Canon of Medicine, which was translated into many languages and studied both in the Islamic world and in Europe, to the point of becoming the reference text for all of medicine until the early nineteenth century.