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Avicenna

Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980-1037) · Doctors · Died at 57

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A Persian polymath from the Islamic Golden Age whose medical encyclopedia stayed in use at European universities for six centuries. His synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and empirical observation shaped how medieval Christendom understood both the body and the mind.

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7 statements, newest first

  1. The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

    1020, "On Medicine, (c. 1020), Own words

  2. Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

    Metaphysics, Book I, Own words

  3. An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

    As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice B. Strauss, Own words

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About this person

Ibn Sina was born around 980 and moved through the courts of various Iranian rulers during the Islamic Golden Age, writing in both Arabic and Persian. He produced The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which became standard curriculum at medieval European universities and remained in use until 1650. His method combined empirical observation with Aristotelian logic - a fusion that made him one of the Muslim world's greatest Peripatetic philosophers. Of the 450 works attributed to him, around 240 survive: 150 on philosophy, 40 on medicine, plus treatises on astronomy, alchemy, geology, psychology, theology, mathematics, and physics. He died on 22 June 1037, leaving a corpus that bridged Baghdad and Bologna.

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Doctors
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Doctor
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deceased
Dates
Lived 980 to 1037 · aged 57

Doctors born in the 980s 3

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