41. Islam Online- News Section Great Muslim Scholars Abu Ali AlHusayn Ibn Abdallah ibn sina (Avicenna) ibn sina lived life to the fullest. Even in the midst of political turmoil, http://198.65.147.194/english/Science/2001/02/article11.shtml

Home About Us Media Kit Contact Us ... Your Mail Search Advanced Search News The World in Pictures Family ... Volunteer Youth Network Muslim Affairs Iraq in Transition Palestine in Focus Discover Islam Introducing Islam Ask about Islam Contemporary Issues My Journey to Islam Shari`ah Corner Ask the Scholar Live Fatwa Fatwa Bank Qur'an: The ... Religious Files Counseling Parenting Counselor Cyber Counselor Services Prayer Times Matrimonial Live Dialogue Discussion Forum ... Address Book Directories Site Directory Islamic Society Islamic Banks TV Channels ... Telephone Code Newsletter Enter your E-mail Great Muslim Scholars: Abu 'Ali Al-Husayn Ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina (Avicenna) By Hawa Irfan To live in the past and to waste the gifts that Allah (SWT) has given to us all is to not live at all. However, to recall the riches of the past and to learn from them serves as a reminder of what we have achieved and what we can still achieve. Ibn Sina lived life to the fullest. Even in the midst of political turmoil, he became a renowned physician, philosopher, encyclopedist, mathematician and astronomer. Ibn Sina was born in 981 in Bukhara, one of the capitals of the Samanid dynasty, in the then northeastern part of Iran. Of Iranian parentage, his father was a middle-level official - the governor of a village on one of the estates owned by the Samanid ruler, Nuh Ibn Mansur. His home was a meeting-place for learned men, creating a ripe environment for Ibn Sina's pre-school education in which his father was his first teacher.

42. Ibn Sina ibn sina, known as the doctor of doctors , was born in 370/980 in Afshana, When Ray was besieged, ibn sina fled to Hamadan where he cured Prince http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/profile_story.asp?service_id=709

43. IslamWay Radio Abu Ali alHusain ibn Abdullah ibn sina preceded nearly every Western philosopher However, despite these wonderful findings ibn sina and other Eastern http://english.islamway.com/bindex.php?section=article&id=130

44. Turkey - The Works Of Ibn Sina In The Süleymaniye Manuscript Library: UNESCO-CI The works of ibn sina that have come down to us are considerable, even if notcomplete. For some, ibn sina wrote about 450 works of which around 240 have http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11254&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2

Search About Home Turkey - The works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library - Updated: 20-06-2005 12:51 Memory of the World Register Europe and North America Turkey ... Programme UNESCO Action Areas - Education - Natural Sciences - Social and Human Sciences - Culture - Communication / Information Topics Nomination Form Reading Room Documentary heritage concerning Turkey and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World International Register. Turkey - The works of Ibn Sina in the Süleymaniye Manuscript Library Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn al-Hassan Ibn al-Ali Ibn Sina (980-1038), often known by his Latin name of Avicenna, has been described as possessing the mind of Goethe and the genius of Leonardo da Vinci. European medical historians consider him to be one of the most famous scientists of Islam and one of the most famous persons of all races, places and times. Ibn Sina was not only a great physician and scientist but a philosopher as well. He also contributed into the fields such as psychology, geology, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy and logic. Today, Ibn Sina’s portrait hangs in the main hall of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris. The works of Ibn Sina that have come down to us are considerable, even if not complete. For some, Ibn Sina wrote about 450 works of which around 240 have survived. G.C. Anawati lists, in his bibliography of 1950, a total of 276 works including texts noted as doubtful and some apocryphal works. Yahya Mahdawi lists 131 authentic and 110 doubtful works in “Bibliographie d’I.S.” in 1954.

45. Ibn Sina High School: UNESCO The ibn sina High School in Kabul, Afghanistan is being rehabilitated with funds ibn sina High school was founded in 1947 and became a high school three http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6715&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.h

var static_ko="6715"; var static_section="201"; var static_langue="en"; UNESCO's Priorities Education Cultural Heritage Media Water Management UNESCO Projects Carried Out Validated Projects Waiting Support Home Ibn Sina High School - Updated: 04-11-2002 11:18 am Afghanistan School being reconstructed by UNESCO. Watch Progress on the Web! The Ibn Sina High School in Kabul, Afghanistan is being rehabilitated with funds provided by UNESCO. As construction workers complete the renovation task, watch the school come back to life on the UNESCO web-site. Every few days, new photographs of the school will be posted on the site, thus enabling you to view progress. Ibn Sina High school was founded in 1947 and became a high school three years later. However, in 1955 it reverted to being an elementary school, with older students then being moved to secondary technical schools. By 1969, it had become a high school again and was fully equipped, including having its own library, hostel and club for students. However, after heavy fighting raged through West Kabul in the 1990’s, the school was extensively damaged. The scars of that devastation by rockets, mortars and machine-gun fire is still evident today. The school lay derelict for some years and in that period, the building was stripped of just about everything. Wiring was pulled from the walls and ceilings, plumbing was plundered and every piece of furniture stolen. This year (2002), teachers and students moved back to the school and started classes in extremely difficult conditions. Without chairs, blackboards, windows, doors, electricity, heating or water, students and teachers began their work. Some 549 students returned to the school and the number grows daily as more Afghans come back to their country from overseas.

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Muslim Uzbekistan . Wrote on theology, metaphysics, astronomy, philology, poetry, and medicine, including Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Cannon of Medicine) wajib al-wujud ), is the only being which is pure Goodness, the source of all existence. Everything else derives its being ( mahiyya ) and its existence ( wujud ) from the Necessary Being and hence is contingent upon God. The contingent beings ( mumkin al-wujud mujarradat ). And (2) beings which are only contingent, the composed bodies of the sublunary world which come into being and pass away. Ibn Sina attempted to integrate Greek philosophy and Islam in an original synthesis which places God at the center of philosophy based on the self-evident truths. Canon of Medicine , is the ordered Summa of all the medical knowledge up to his time. Divided into five books, this major work of Islamic medical tradition was used as the basic textbook for teaching medicine for seven centuries both in the East as well as in the West. Translated by Gerard of Cremona between 1150 and 1187, the Canon formed the basis of teaching at all European universities. It appears in the oldest known syllabus of teaching given to the School of Medicine at Montpellier, dating from 1309, and in all subsequent ones until 1557.

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Add to Favorites General Encyclopedia Legal ... Law forum Search Word: Visit our Law forums Labor Law Accidents Law Bankruptcy Law Business Law ... Tax Law This article needs cleanup This article needs to be edited to conform to a higher standard of article quality. After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page and the style and How-to Directory Avicenna Avicenna , or in Persian Abu Ali Husain ebn Abdallah Ebn-e Sina or simply Ibn Sina (as he is usually called) ( ), was a Persian physician, philosopher, and scientist. He was the author of 450 books on many subjects, many on philosophy and medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine , also known as the Qanun He was born in Kharmaithen in Persia , (today a part of Uzbekistan ), and died in Hamadan Iran ). He is considered "The Father of modern medicine" and is one of the greatest physicians of all time. (Some sources actually state that Avicenna was born in Hamadan, and a good brief biography, linked below, claims him as a Persian from Balkh As a child he displayed an exceptional intellectual behaviour. He was a

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50. Ibn Sina / Avicenna - Saab Medical Library - AUB (The Book of the Canon of Medicine). by Abu Ali alShaykh al-Ra is. ibn sina.with some of his works including logic and physics and theology http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/saab/avicenna/english.html

Main Contents Introduction "Kitab al Qanoun fi Al Toubb" (The Book of the Canon of Medicine) by Abu Ali al-Shaykh al-Ra'is Ibn Sina with some of his works including logic and physics and theology R O M E The Medical Press (The illuminations at the top and bottom of the page are from the book.) Created by the Digital Documentation Center at AUB in collaboration with Al Mashriq of , Norway. 20020221/bl - Email: sml@aub.edu.lb

51. Ibn Sina The achievements of ibn sina in the field of science and his Arab greats Therich world of ibn sina, THE STAR (The Star (Jordan, Middle East)) http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0914578.html

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52. Robert C. Koons: Phl 356 Lecture #4 It is in the area of rationale that ibn sina makes his most significant ibn sina introduces into the tradition a new argument for the necessity of a http://www.leaderu.com/offices/koons/docs/lec4.html

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53. Avicenna --  Encyclopædia Britannica Arabic ibn sina, in full Abu Ali alHusayn ibn Abd Allah ibn sina Iranianphysician, Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah ibn sina (Avicenna) http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011433

Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Early years Writings Avicenna's influence Additional Reading ... Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Avicenna  Encyclopædia Britannica Article Page 1 of 5 born 980, Bukhara, Iran died 1037, Hamadan Arabic Ibn Sina, in full Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Sina Iranian physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam. He was particularly noted for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. He composed the

54. Abu'l 'Ali Al-Husayn B. 'Abd Allah Ibn Sina By the time of his sixteenth birthday, ibn sina had mastered physics, ibn sina’s surviving works include more than two hundred and fifty books, http://www.cis-ca.org/voices/s/ibnsina_mn.html

Abu’l ‘Ali al-Husayn b. ‘Abd Allah ibn Sina (370/980-428/1037) [This is a preliminary entry; a more detailed entry will be available later.] Abu’l ‘Ali al-Husayn b. ‘Abd Allah b. Sina, Latinized as Avicenna during the Middle Ages, known in the Muslim world as Ibn Sina, is one of the most important representatives of that encyclopaedic tradition of learning which was the hallmark of Islamic scholarship. Honorifically called al-Shaykh al-Ra’is , the Grand Shaykh, Ibn Sina was born in 370 AH/980 CE in Afshana, his mother’s home town near present day Bukhara, Uzbekistan, during the reign of Amir Nuh ibn Mansur al-Samani. We know about his life and works from two authoritative sources: An autobiography which covers the first thirty years of his life and the detailed life-sketch left behind by his disciple and friend al-Juzjani. His father was a high official of the Samanid administration, his native language was Persian and he was first educated at home and then sent to learn jurisprudence from Isma‘il al-Zahid. He studied the Almagest, Elements

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HOME NEWS ISLAM HISTORY ... PICTURES Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Afghanland.com - Ibn Sina was born in Balkh Afghanistan. His mother was a native of bacteria his father, a tax collector from Balkh under Ibn Mansur, the Samanid amir of Bokhara. On the birth of Ibn Sina's younger brother the family migrated to Bokhara, then one of the chief cities of the Muslim world, and famous for a culture which was older than its conquest by the Saracens. Ibn Sina was put under the charge of a tutor, and his precocity soon made him the marvel of his neighbors; he displayed exceptional intellectual behavior and was a child prodigy who had memorized the Qur'an by the age of 10 and a great deal of Arabic poetry as well. From a greengrocer he learned arithmetic, and he began to learn more from a wandering scholar who gained a livelihood by curing the sick and teaching the young. He turned to medicine at 16, and not only learned medical theory, but by gratuitous attendance on the sick had, according to his own account, discovered new methods of treatment. The teenager achieved full status as a physician at age 18 and found that "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." The youthful physician's fame spread quickly, and he treated many patients without asking for payment.

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58. Ibn Sina By the time ibn sina was born, Nuh ibn Mansur was the Sultan in Bukhara but Certainly ibn sina was a remarkable child, with a memory and an ability to http://zia.rahin.iwarp.com/ibnsina.htm

Free Web Hosting Provider Web Hosting E-commerce High Speed Internet ... Photo Sharing if(window.ivnRotate) window.ivnRotate1 = new window.ivnRotate('ivnRotate1',0,document.awsSearch1.Keywords) Popular Searches: Home Afghanistan Photos About Afghanistan Forbidden Land ... Urdu Ghazals [ Ibn Sina ] Al Biruni Afghan Women Afghan Links Personal Chat ... Read Guestbook Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina Avicenna Born: 980 in Kharmaithen (near Bukhara), Central Asia (now Uzbekistan) Died: June 1037 in Hamadan, Persia (now Iran) Ibn Sina is often known by his Latin name of Avicenna , although most references to him today have reverted to using the correct version of ibn Sina. We know many details of his life for he wrote an autobiography which has been supplemented with material from a biography written by one of his students. The autobiography is not simply an account of his life, but rather it is written to illustrate his ideas of reaching the ultimate truth, so it must be carefully interpreted. A useful critical edition of this autobiography appears in [7] while a new translation appears in [9]. The course of ibn Sina's life was dominated by the period of great political instability through which he lived. The Samanid dynasty, the first native dynasty to arise in Iran after the Muslim Arab conquest, controlled Transoxania and Khorasan from about 900. Bukhara was their capital and it, together with Samarkand, were the cultural centres of the empire. However, from the middle of the 10th century, the power of the Samanid's began to weaken. By the time ibn Sina was born, Nuh ibn Mansur was the Sultan in Bukhara but he was struggling to retain control of the empire.

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From "A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate" by Cyril Elgood (Cambridge University Press, London, 1952). Elgood, who was "Physician to H.B.M. Legation, Tehran, ,Perssia" points out in his introduction that he has used the terms Arabic and Persian medicine indiscriminately in writing about the Islamic period. (Page V) No other country in Europe, Asia or Africa seems to inspire writers as does Iran. Light works of travel and heavy books on more or less obscure subjects are printed and published by the score. Yet no complete history of medicine in Iran, that part of the Middle East formerly called Persia, has up until now been attempted. It is strange, for Persia has played as important a part in the world's history of medicine as have Persian poetry and Persian miniatures in the world's history of literature and art. Of the three, I think medicine has played the greatest part. This subject has not, of course, been entirely neglected. Nevertheless, more remains, as Professor Browne pointed out many years ago, to be accomplished in this branch of oriental studies than in any other of equal importance. A few Arabists have dealt with some of the Persian physicians who wrote in Arabic. These are, it is true, the greatest of the Persian School of Medicine.

60. Avicenna - Iran S Great Mathematician And Philosopher, Ibn Sina Avicenna Iran s Great mathematician and Philosopher, ibn sina wrote on onmedicine as well as geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music. http://www.farsinet.com/hamadan/avicenna.html

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (Avicenna) Born: 980 in Kharmaithen (near Bukhara), Central Asia (now Uzbekistan) Died: June 1037 in Hamadan , Persia (now Iran) Ibn Sina is often known by his Latin name of Avicenna, although most references to him today have reverted to using the correct version of ibn Sina. We know many details of his life for he wrote an autobiography which has been supplemented with material from a biography written by one of his students. The autobiography is not simply an account of his life, but rather it is written to illustrate his ideas of reaching the ultimate truth, so it must be carefully interpreted. A useful critical edition of this autobiography appears in [7] while a new translation appears in [9]. The course of ibn Sina's life was dominated by the period of great political instability through which he lived. The Samanid dynasty, the first native dynasty to arise in Iran after the Muslim Arab conquest, controlled Transoxania and Khorasan from about 900. Bukhara was their capital and it, together with Samarkand, were the cultural centres of the empire. However, from the middle of the 10th century, the power of the Samanid's began to weaken. By the time ibn Sina was born, Nuh ibn Mansur was the Sultan in Bukhara but he was struggling to retain control of the empire. Ibn Sina's father was the governor of a village in one of Nuh ibn Mansur's estates. He was educated by his father, whose home was a meeting place for men of learning in the area. Certainly ibn Sina was a remarkable child, with a memory and an ability to learn which amazed the scholars who met in his father's home. By the age of ten he had memorised the Qur'an and most of the Arabic poetry which he had read. When ibn Sina reached the age of thirteen he began to study medicine and he had mastered that subject by the age of sixteen when he began to treat patients. He also studied logic and

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