Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Father of modern medicine

Wikipedia: Abū Alī Sīnā, most commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna, (c. 980 - 1037) was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic psychologist, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, and scientist. His full name was Hussain ibn Abdullah ibn Hassan ibn Ali ibn Sina. He was born around 980 in Afshana, near Bukhara, which was his mother's hometown, in Greater Khorasan, to a Persian family. His father, Abdullah, was a respected Ismaili scholar from Balkh, an important town of the Samanid Emirate, in what is today Afghanistan.

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you people make me laugh to argue over such a stupid thing. Avecina is a Tajik and will remain a Tajik just like ferdowsi was a Tajik. you first need to learn who  are Tajiks then come here and get all upset over the fact that someone claimed avecina was a Tajik. first of all that's my video and yes i calimed that. Avecina was a Tajik being a Tajik makes him more Iranian then you ever thought!!! Ferdowsi being a Tajik makes him the purest Iranian. doesn't mean that a country called Tajikistan has now been created Tajiks are not Iranian. they are as Iranian as you and your great grand fathers. Irans borders does not end where it ends today. Iran startes from corners of europe to corners of china. we all know that indo europeans are either indian or Iranian. i was born in Afghanistan does that mean i am not Iranian? yes i am not an Iranian citizen but ethnicly i remain an Iranian. does that mean that Prasies of India are not Iranian anymore? while they claim being Iranian themselves. Zorastra was a Tajik!!! now come tell me that he wasn't iranian!!! Balkh a city IN AFGHANISTAN gave birth to Zorastra, Muallana and MANY MORE great persoalities. so now by what you are caliming Muallana is not an Iranian is he? neither is Zorastra an Iranian is he? LOL uneducated people really make me laugh. Educate your self then come here and get all offended that Avecinna wasn't a Tajik. Tajik is an Iranian ethnic and will always be.


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great info

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thanks for this. i was unfamiliar with the small treatise on the pulse in persian. do you have a reference for it? i'll check in fuat sezgin's catalogue, although from what i remember he lists the works preserved in arabic only. i don't read persian fluently, but it may be helpful for a paper i'm writing now to check what terminology he uses.

as always, i learn something new everyday on ic


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Ibn Sina was born in 980

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Ibn Sina was born in 980 C.E. in the village of Afshana near Bukhara which today is located in the far south of Russia. His father, Abdullah, an adherent of the Ismaili sect, was from Balkh and his mother from a village near Bukhara. In any age Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, would have been a giant among giants. He displayed exceptional intellectual prowess as a child and at the age of ten was already proficient in the Qur'an and the Arabic classics.

During the next six years he devoted himself to Muslim Jurisprudence, Philosophy and Natural Science and studied Logic, Euclid, and the Almeagest. He turned his attention to Medicine at the age of 17 years and found it, in his own words, "not difficult". However he was greatly troubled by metaphysical problems and in particular the works of Aristotle. By chance, he obtained a manual on this subject by the celebrated philosopher al-Farabi which solved his difficulties. By the age of 18 he had built up a reputation as a physician and was summoned to attend the Samani ruler Nuh ibn Mansur (reigned 976-997 C.E.), who, in gratitude for Ibn Sina's services, allowed him to make free use of the royal library, which contained many rare and even unique books. Endowed with great powers of absorbing and retaining knowledge, this Muslim scholar devoured the contents of the library and at the age of 21 was in a position to compose his first book.

 At about the same time he lost his father and soon afterwards left Bukhara and wandered westwards. He entered the services of Ali ibn Ma'mun, the ruler of Khiva, for a while, but ultimately fled to avoid being kidnapped by the Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna. After many wanderings he came to Jurjan, near the Caspian Sea, attracted by the fame of its ruler, Qabus, as a patron of learning. Unfortunately Ibn Sina's arrival almost coincided with the deposition and murder of this ruler.

At Jurjan, Ibn Sina lectured on logic and astronomy and wrote the first part of the Qanun, his greatest work. He then moved to Ray, near modern Teheran and established a busy medical practice. When Ray was besieged, Ibn Sina fled to Hamadan where he cured Amir Shamsud-Dawala of colic and was made Prime Minister. A mutiny of soldiers against him caused his dismissal and imprisonment, but subsequently the Amir, being again attacked by the colic, summoned him back, apologised and reinstated him! His life at this time was very strenuous: during the day he was busy with the Amir's services, while a great deal of the night was passed in lecturing and dictating notes for his books.

 Students would gather in his home and read parts of his two great books, the Shifa and the Qanun, already composed. Following the death of the Amir, Ibn Sina fled to Isfahan after a few brushes with the law, including a period in prison. He spent his final years in the services of the ruler of the city, Ala al-Daula whom he advised on scientific and literary matters and accompanied on military campaigns. Friends advised him to slow down and take life in moderation, but this was not in character. "I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length", he would reply. Worn out by hard work and hard living, Ibn Sina died in 1036/1 at a comparatively early age of 58 years. He was buried in Hamadan where his grave is still shown. Al-Qifti states that Ibn Sina completed 21 major and 24 minor works on philosophy, medicine, theology, geometry, astronomy and the like. Another source (Brockelmann) attributes 99 books to Ibn Sina comprising 16 on medicine, 68 on theology and metaphysics 11 on astronomy and four on verse. Most of these were in Arabic; but in his native Persian he wrote a large manual on philosophical science entitled Danish-naama-i-Alai and a small treatise on the pulse.

His most celebrated Arabic poem describes the descent of Soul into the Body from the Higher Sphere. Among his scientific works, the leading two are the Kitab al-Shifa (Book of Healing), a philosophical encyclopaedia based upon Aristotelian traditions and the al-Qanun al-Tibb which represents the final categorisation of Greco-Arabian thoughts on Medicine.

Of Ibn Sina's 16 medical works, eight are versified treatises on such matter as the 25 signs indicating the fatal termination of illnesses, hygienic precepts, proved remedies, anatomical memoranda etc. Amongst his prose works, after the great Qanun, the treatise on cardiac drugs, of which the British Museum possesses several fine manuscripts, is probably the most important, but it remains unpublished.

The Qanun is, of course, by far the largest, most famous and most important of Ibn Sina's works. The work contains about one million words and like most Arabic books, is elaborately divided and subdivided. The main division is into five books, of which the first deals with general principles; the second with simple drugs arranged alphabetically; the third with diseases of particular organs and members of the body from the head to the foot; the fourth with diseases which though local in their inception spread to other parts of the body, such as fevers and the fifth with compound medicines.

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What did Sina do? Poor Hossein, did everything but his great-gr

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and father (Sina) got all the credit! Imagine that? I don't even know who my grand father's dad was let alone his grand father! How about if they would have gone 7 generations, which was the norm?Regardless, he is the pride of Iranians and humanity.

The answer to his question:"what have you done in the last 1000 years?" We were busy reading the Quran!


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A Complete And Total Renaissance Man, Six Hundred (600) Years Before The Term Became Fashionable .....

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humanbeing

ibn sina intellectual and cultural hero

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ibn sina is the embodiment of the ancient holistic ethos, first of all of tabib and faylasuf rolled into one (as recommended in a treatise by the greek doctor galen, a treatise translated and widely circulated in the arab and islamic world), and a man of letters and sciences. aside from the qanun and the shifa, we ought to remember is poem on medicine, and his metaphysical visionary recitals (hikayat) which are spritual and artistically beautiful prose. like all great personalities, anonymous works were attributed to him in order to lend these works greatness (e.g.. the romantic tale of salaman and absal). he was ahead of the game, a real renaissance man (ahead not only of the european renaissance but of the renaissance in the buwayhi realm). seyyed hossein nasr and henry corbin studied ibn sina's visionary recitals in the context of a larger phenomenon, with texts partly in arabic, partly in persian, but definitely part of a culturally persian tradition. i personally admire his contribution to the interpretation of the greek text of aristotle's poetics: his commentary of this work has preserved readings of an early superior text of the poetics which did not survive in greek and whose translation by yahya ibn adi did not survive.

finally, as a cultural personality of the greatest magnitude, he was the object of biography and anecdote by the likes of n9izami-aruzy in chahar maqhala (in persian) and of juzjani (in arabic) as well as of borges (in spanish). i cross-refer to the anecdote about ibn sina i posted in a comment on 'beer' in this website only yesterday.

ibn sina, i want to have your babies!


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Why not?

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we live at the age that molana is a Turk, Persian Gulf is Gulf with no name or Arabian Gulf. Farabi , Razi and the rest of persian scientist are arabo islamo scientists. Bakammon is  an isreali game. The  list goes on and on, so why can't Sina be tajik? as for cyrus and Darius, soon they will fade away too. I am guessing some one will discover that they were actualy from Ukraine.

Apparently according to liberal idiots and their islamo communist counter parts, there never was/is a such a thing as an iranian tribe or an Iranian identity! and that my friend is core of the problem.


Immortal Guard

Avicenna is not Tajik!

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Take a look at the map to see where Tajikistan is!

Soon I guess Cyrus the Great will be called a Pakistani, Norouz will be of Turkish origin, Al-Kharazmi will be an Arab, Firdausi will be called a Turkomen, Rhazi will be an Assyrian etc.

We Persians must really owe the world a lot!