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Avicenna

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Av·i·cen·na  (v-sn) 980-1037.
Persian physician and Neo-Platonist philosopher noted for his Canon of Medicine, a standard medical textbook used in Europe until the 17th century.
Avicenna [ˌævɪˈsɛnə]
n
(Biographies / Avicenna (980-1037) M, Arab, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, MEDICINE: physician) Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980-1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine
Avicenna  (v-sn)
See Ibn Sina, Hakim.
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Noun1.Avicenna - Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, ibn-Sina


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See also Dimitri Gutas, "The Heritage of Avicenna: The Golden Age of Arabic Philosophy, ca 1000-1350" in Avicenna and His Heritage: Acts of the International Colloquium, Leuven-Louvain-La-Neuve, September 8-September 11, 1999, ed.
Atomism versus hylomorphism in the kalam of al-Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: ... by Setia, 'Adi / Islam & Science
They commented on the works of Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna for medicine.
The universities of the Renaissance and Reformation* by Grendler, Paul F. / Renaissance Quarterly
Religious matters, programs and textbooks emphasize the thinking of the scholars influenced by the best of our late-medieval thinkers, like Averroes and Avicenna.
How Arabs fight Islamism by Breger, Marshall J. / The National Interest
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