| Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina |
| Name |
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina |
| Born |
approximately 980 CE / 370 AH |
| Died |
1037 CE / 428 AH |
| Nationality |
Persian |
| Main interests |
Medicine, alchemy and chemistry, astronomy, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy, Islamic studies, logic, mathematics, psychology, physics and science, poetry, theology |
| Notable ideas |
Father of modern medicine and the concept of momentum, founder of Avicennism and Avicennian logic, forerunner of psychoanalysis, and pioneer of aromatherapy and neuropsychiatry |
| Works |
The Canon of Medicine
The Book of Healing |
| Influences |
Hippocrates, Sushruta, Charaka, Aristotle, Galen, Plotinus, Neoplatonism, Indian mathematics, Muhammad, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Wasil ibn Ata, al-Kindi, al-Farabi, al-Razi, al-Biruni, Muslim physicians |
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