User:HistoryofIran/Avicenna
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Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا), better known in the West by the Latinized form of Avicenna (/ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ-/) was a Persian polymath who wrote about many subjects, mainly in philosophy and medicine, but also natural history, physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, and music.
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Avicenna Ibn Sina | |
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ابن سینا | |
Born | 980 |
Died | 1037 (aged 56 or 57) |
Other names | Abu ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā |
Era | Medieval, Islamic Golden Age |
Region | Islamic philosophy |
School | Aristotelianism, Avicennism |
Main interests | |
Avicenna served in the court of various Iranian dynasties, such as the Samanids, Ma'munids, Ziyarids, Buyids and Kakuyids.
He was born in a village named Afshana (near the capital of Bukhara) in c. 980 to a family with a bureaucratic background—his father was the governor of the village of the royal estate Harmaytan. At the of seventeen, he was appointed as a physician of the Samanid amir (ruler) Nuh II (r. 976–997). Between 997–1009 (possibly in 999), Avicenna went to Gurganj, the capital of Khwarazm.
Despite his Persian background, Avicenna wrote most of his work in Arabic, as it was the popular language in scholarship at the time. Regardless, he did write some of his works in Persian, such as the Danish-nama-yi Ala'i ("Book of Science for Ala"), which he had dedicated to his patron, Ala al-Dawla Muhammad (r. 1008–1041), the Kakuyid ruler of Isfahan.