His first tomb has built-in Qajar and ordering by a grandchild of Iran’s shah (Fathali shah). Forty times, it is said, he read through the Metaphysics of Aristotle, till the words were imprinted on his memory but their meaning was hopelessly obscure, until one day he found illumination, from the little commentary by Farabi, which he bought at a bookstall for the small sum of three Dirhams.Īvicenna was born 980 AD, at the age of 57 on June 1037 passed away in Hamadan. Deep into the night, he would continue his studies, and even in his dreams problems would pursue him and work out their solution. Most of his works were written in Arabic as the language of science in the Middle East were mostly Arabic and some of his works were in Persian.Īvicenna first began to learn the Quran and literature in such a way that when he was ten years old he had essentially learned all of them. In 1973, Avicenna's Canon of Medicine was reprinted in New York.īesides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography, and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and poetry. His most famous works are "Shefa" (The Book of Healing) a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and "Qanun" (The Canon of Medicine) a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine. 980 in Afsana, a village near Bukhara Old Persia and (in present-day Uzbekistan), and has buried in Hamadan one of the western cities in Iran, in Bu Ali Sina Central Square in this city.
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