Avicenna
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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 Ir
Modern portrait of Ibn Sina, National Library of Medicine (1952)
Coin of Majd al-Dawla (r. 997–1029), the amir (ruler) of the Buyid branch of Ray
Coin of Ala al-Dawla Muhammad (r. 1008–1041), the Kakuyid ruler of Isfahan
The Mausoleum of Avicenna, Hamadan, Iran
The Canon of Medicine
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The Canon of Medicine is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Ibn Sina and completed in 1025. It is among the most influential works of its time. It presents an overview of the contem
Avicenna
…described as the father of early modern medicine, Avicenna's most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Besides philosophy…
Persian version of The Canon of Medicine at Avicenna's mausoleum in Hamedan
First page of the introduction to the first book (Arabic manuscript, 1597)
A Latin copy of the Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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