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XI 4 MIPA
Name : 'Abu 'Ali al-Husin ibn 'Abdullah ibn Sina
D.O.B : August 980 A.D. (Safar 370 A.H.)
P.O.B : in the village of Afshana near Bukhara, Turkistan.
His father : Abdullah, from Balkh, the local governor of
Kharmaithan,
His mother : Sitareh, from Afshana .
D.O.D : 1037 A.D ( 480 A.H)
Ibn Sina is known to the West by the Europeanized Hebrew
translation of his name, Avicenna (Aven Sina).
He was known as a great physician and philosopher in his
time.
Also expert in astrology, chemistry, math, physiology, physic,
theology and pharmacology.
Wrote more than 450 journals and books from variety
discipline of knowledge.
Today, only 240 of his books still exist. 150 from it in the field
of philosophy and 40 of it relates to medicine.
The famous books – kitab al-shifa’ dan Al-Qanun fit tibb.
His education
His early education was religious, and by the age of 10, he knew by heart
the whole Qur'an and other available Persian and Arabic literature.
When ibn Sina reached the age of thirteen he began to study medicine
and he had mastered that subject by the age of sixteen when he began to
treat patients.
The Things that I like from Ibnu Sina
He is a diligent
He has high spirit
He has high sense of humanity