IBN SINA ABU ‘ALI AL-HUSAYN known as Avicenna was Born on August AH 370/AD 980 near Bukhara (capital of the Samanid Empire), in Central Asia, todays Uzbekistan. Avicenna was a Persian polymath and the Arguably the most important physician and Islamic philosopher of his time. One of the most famous exponents, defenders of Muslim universalism and an eminent figure in Islamic learning men. He was also an astronomer, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, chemist, scientist, Sheikh, statesman, theologian and soldier. He belonged to a respectable family, his father Abdullah, was a respected scholar from Balkh, an important town of the Samanid Empire, in what is today Balkh Province, Afghanistan. He was given the responsibility of governing a village in one of the royal estates. His father viewed his sons education and development with great importance. Avicenna’s father hired tutors to teach him the Koran and literature, and sciences in the Persian Samanid dynasty, the intellectual center of Islam. When Avicenna reached the age of thirteen he began his studies in medicine. His progression and intelligence resulted in his independent thought which was served by an extraordinary intelligence and memory. This remarkable ability allowed him to overtake his teachers at the age of fourteen. As he said in his autobiography, there was nothing that he had not learned when he reached eighteen. He turned to medicine at 16, and not only learned medical theory, but also by gratuitous attendance of the sick had, according to his own account, discovered new methods of treatment. The teenager achieved full status as a qualified physician at age of eighteen. The youthful physician’s fame spread quickly, and he treated many patients without asking for payment. His medical expertise brought him to the attention of the Sultan of Bukhara at the time Nuh ibn Mansur, Avicenna had treated him successfully; therefore was provided with the permission to use the sultan’s library and its rare manuscripts, allowing him to continue his research for knowledge.

“Medicine is no hard and thorny science, like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress; I became an excellent doctor and began to treat patients, using approved remedies.”

His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a expansive scientific and philosophical encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was established as a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities up until the early 19th century. His most important contribution to medical science, was his famous book al-Qanun, known as the “Canon” in the West. This book was an immense encyclopedia of medicine including over a million words, usually like most Arabic books it was richly divided and subdivided. It comprises of the entire medical knowledge available from ancient and Muslim sources. Ibn Sina is regarded as a father of early modern medicine, and clinical pharmacology distinctly for his introduction of the systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology, his discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of evidence-based medicine, of experimental medicine, clinical trials, randomised controlled trials, efficacy tests, clinical pharmacology, neuropsychiatry, risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome, and the importance of dietetics and the influence of climate and environment on health. He is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics, and regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy. His ideas were generally accepted alongside his unshakable proofs.

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Medicine: His encyclopedia of medicine, contains some of the most elucidate thoughts in medicine from careful description of skin troubles; of sexual diseases and perversions; of nervous ailments, treatments of illnesses, pleurisy; contagious nature of phthisis; distribution of diseases by water and soil and the creation of his countless Medical instruments some still used in today’s modern world of medicine.

Mathematics and Physical Sciences: Avicenna encyclopaedic works in the mathematical sciences, which included both mathematics and astronomy, and the physical sciences. This included the usual Aristotelian disciplines designated as the Physics, the Heavens, Generation and Corruption, Meteorological. He was instrumental in providing countless proofs for theorems and solutions in the science of mathematics.

Logic: Many of Avicenna’s works on logic are still enduring today and most of them have been published.His groundbreaking book (Book of the healing [of the soul]), Avicenna’s philosophical summa, are devoted to logical matters. There are nine parts that make up the book, each corresponding to Aristotelian logical works. There are also influences from the writings of Islamic logicians as well as those of medieval Latin logicians. For Avicenna Logic was an instrument that has numerous functions. In language and logic, Avicenna is credited as the originator of this distinction, which remained a central issue in logical debate for several centuries. Avicenna is credited in writing over 400 works on a variety of topics but only about 250 have survived. Of the surviving works, over 100 address philosophical questions, while about 40 deal with medicine. Some of his best known works include:

The Canon of Medicine
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Book of Healing

Book of Salvation

Divine Wisdom Book of Virtue and Sin

Book of Sum and Substance

Philosophy for the Prosodist

Conclusion: For a thousand years he has been renown as one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history. He is remembered in the Western history of medicine as a major historical figure who made important contributions to medicine and the European Renaissance. There have been many numerous awards and scholarships created on behalf of this great Muslim scientist. More famously The Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science is awarded every two years by UNESCO and rewards individuals and groups in the field of ethics in science. The prize was named after Avicenna. The aim of the award is to promote ethical reflection on issues raised by advances in science and technology, and to raise global awareness of the importance of ethics in science. There is also a crater on the Moon named Avicenna and a plant genus Avicennia. The author of The History of Science, described Ibn Sina as “one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history” and called him “the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places, and times.” He was one of the Islamic world’s leading writers in the field of medicine.

“A believer is never satiated with gainful knowledge. He goes on acquiring it till his death and entry into Paradise.” Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) / Tirmidhi.


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