Who was AVICENNA?
Abu Ali Al-Hussein Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna
(ابو علی حسیں بن عبدللہ بن سینا المعروف بو علی سینا), was one of the most eminent Muslim physicians and philosophers of his days whose influence on Islamic and European medicine persisted for centuries. He was named by his students and followers as “Al Shaikh Al Ra’ees” or the master wise man.
Ibn Sina was born in 980 AD in the village of Afshanah near the city of Bukhara in Central Asia, the capital of the Samani kingdom at that time, in the present country of Uzbekistan. His father, Abdullah, was from the city of Balkh and worked as a local governor for a village near Bukhara. His mother was a Tadjik woman named Sitara. Abdullah realized that his son was a prodigy child and was keen on getting the best tutors for his genius son. At the age of ten, he finished studying and memorizing the Koran by heart and was proficient in Arabic language and its literature classics. In the following 6 years, he devoted his time for studying Islamic law and jurisprudence, philosophy, logic and natural sciences. At the age of thirteen, he started studying the medical sciences. By the age of eighteen, he was a well established physician and his reputation became well known in his country and beyond. He was quoted as stating that: “Medicine is no hard and thorny science like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress; I became an excellent physician and began to treat patients using approved remedies.
Principle works
Avicenna authored a five-volume medical encyclopedia: The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fit-Tibb - القانون فی الطب ). It was used as the standard medical textbook in the Islamic world and Europe up to the 18th century. The Canon still plays an important role in Unani medicine(طب یونانی).
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