![]() His philosophical system, inspired by Aristotle but in many ways closer to Neo-Platonism, was a significant influence on the development of 13th-century scholasticism.īorn in Afshana in the district of Bukhara in the Persianate Samanid Empire (in present-day Uzbekistan,) Avicenna was renowned for his precocious and prodigious learning. ![]() Avicenna (c.980–c.1037,) fully Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā, was a Persian-born Islāmic polymath-an astronomer, chemist, ḥāfiẓ, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, physician, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, diplomat, and theologian.Īvicenna was one of the most significant thinkers of the Islāmic Golden Age, which dominated European medical thought from the late 12th to the 17th century.
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