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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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878-950), Ibn Sina (980-1037), al-Ghazali (1058-1111), Ibn Tufayl (ca.
Muhammad Ali Khalidi (ed.): Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings by Igbal, Muzaffar / Islam & Science
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Gentile's major writing, composed over most of his working life, from about 1315 until about 1345, was a detailed commentary of some three or four million words on one of the most important collections of medical treatises, the Canon of Medicine by the Persian polymath Ibn Sina, Avicenna to the Latin world (980-1037).
Canonical Medicine: Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticism. by Matsen, Herbert S. / Renaissance Quarterly
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