Avicenna

ابن سینا

Ibn Sina

Country

Iran

Languages

Classical Arabic, Classical Persian

Dates

980 — 1037

islammuslim world

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Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.