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IBN SINA
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 Quran and th Arabic classics. During the next six years he devoted himself to muslim Jurisprudence, Phiosophy and Natural Science and studied Logic, Euclid, and the Almeagest. Al-Qifti states that Ibn Sina completed 21 major and 24 minor orks on philosophy, medicine, theology, geomtry, 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 andfour on vrse. Most of these were in Arabic, but n his native Persian he rote 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, a philosophical encyclopedia based upon Aristoltelian traditions and the al Qanun al- Tibb which represents te final categorisation of Greco- Arabian thoughts on Medicine.
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