Avicenna (Ibn Sinā)

Ibn Sinā, Abu Ali Hossein Ben Adballāh Ben Sinā (known in the West as Avicenna) (980-1037), Iran's famous sage, philosopher, physician and scholar, was born in the city of Bukhara. At the age of ten he learned the Koran and many literary texts. At eighteen he was skilled in logic, natural science and mathematics. After that he became interested in the divine and read Aristotle's Metaphysics. The philosophical system of Ibn Sinā, in general and in particular from the point of view of some of its principles, had the most profound and lasting influence on Islamic philosophical thought after him and also on European philosophy of the Middle Ages.

In the structure of peripatetic thought he brings innovations, clarifies the ambiguous points of Aristotle's thought, sometimes expands it and finally tries to create, with the help of elements of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, a new philosophical system, but the events of life , especially premature death, left his efforts unfinished. The Canon of Ibn Sinā over the course of a few centuries, both in Islamic countries and in Europe in the middle ages, had the preponderance over all other medical books and exerted a notable influence on them. The works of Abu Ali Sinā consisting of 238 volumes, treatises, and letters in Arabic and Persian deal with the following topics: medicine, mysticism, Sufism, logic, philosophy, religious sciences, exegesis of the Koran, mathematics applied to music, language and linguistics , phonetics etc. .. and almost all of them have come down to us, many of them have been published and some have been translated into various languages. Ibn Sinā passed away on the first Friday of Ramadan in June 1037 at the age of 58 at Hamedan and in this same city he was buried. In Iran, the first day of the month of Shahrivar, coinciding with his birth, was called "doctor's day" in honor of his publications, his contributions to medical science, his activity in this field and as a tribute to doctors. .