Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, was a Persian polymath and philosopher born in 980 in Afshana, near Bukhara. He became a renowned physician and wrote extensively on philosophy, science and logic. Some of his most influential works include The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine. Ibn Sina integrated Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic theology and made major contributions in medicine, philosophy and science. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age and in the present day is regarded as a national icon in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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2. Name
• His formal Arabic name was Abū
ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn bin ʿAbdillāh ibn al-
Ḥasan bin ʿAlī ibn Sīnā.
• Avicenna was born c. 980 in
Afshana, a village near Bukhara the
capital of the Samanids.
• Avicenna mean Son of Sina.

3. Biography
• His mother, named Sitāra, was
from Bukhara.
• His father name was Abdullah.
• Most of Avicenna's family were
Sunnis so Ibn-e-sina belongs to a
sunni Family.
• Avicenna 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.

4. Early life
• He learned Indian arithmetic from an
Indian greengrocer.
• He also studied Fiqh (Islamic
jurisprudence) under the Sunni Hanafi
scholar Ismail al-Zahid. Avicenna was
taught some extent of philosophy books
such as Porphyry's Introduction
(Isagoge), Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's
Almagest by an unpopular philosopher,
Abu Abdullah Nateli, who claimed
philosophizing.

5. Religion
• A number of theories have been proposed regarding
Avicenna's madhab.
• Medieval historian Ẓahīr al-dīn al-Bayhaqī (d. 1169)
considered Avicenna to be a follower of the Brethren of
Purity.
• On the other hand, Dimitri Gutas along with Aisha Khan
and Jules J. Janssens demonstrated that Avicenna was a
Sunni Hanafi.
• Avicenna studied Hanafi law, many of his notable
• teachers were Hanafi jurists, and he served under the
Hanafi court of Ali ibn Mamun.

6. Adulthood
• Avicenna's first appointment was that of physician
to the emir, Nuh II, who owed him his recovery
from a dangerous illness (997).
• Avicenna's chief reward for this service was access
to the royal library of the Samanids, wellknown
patrons of scholarship and scholars. When the
library was destroyed by fire not long after, the
enemies of Avicenna accused him of burning it, in
order for ever to conceal the sources of his
knowledge. Meanwhile, he assisted his father in his
financial labours , but still found time to write
some of his earliest works.
• At 22 years old, Avicenna lost his father.

7. Works
• Avicenna wrote extensively on early Islamic philosophy, especially
the subjects logic, ethics, and metaphysics, including treatises
named Logic and Metaphysics.
• He integrated Aristotelian and platonic philosophy with Islamic
theology and further divided the knowledge into theoretical (meta-
physics) and practical (ethics and politics).
• He was inters ted in soul. He adopted Aristotle's idea of three types
of soul namely Vegetative, Animal and Rational souls.
• He also believed that human and animals share five senses that
bound to earth.
• Most of his works were written in Arabic –then the language of
science in the Middle East – and some in Persian.

8. Persian works
• Avicenna's most important Persian work is the
Danishnama-i 'Alai ( ‫دانشنامه‬
‫عالئی‬
,
" the Book of
Knowledge for [Prince] ‘Ala ad-Daulah").
• Avicenna created new scientific vocabulary that
had not previously existed in Persian.
• The Danishnama covers such topics as logic,
metaphysics, music theory and other sciences
of his time.
• It has been translated into English by Parwiz
Morewedge in 1977.[129] The book is also
important in respect to Persian scientific works.

9. In present day
 In present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, he is
considered a national icon, and is often regarded as
among the greatest Persians.
 A monument was erected outside the Bukhara museum.
The Avicenna Mausoleum and Museum in Hamadan was
built in 1952.
 Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamadan (Iran), the
biotechnology Avicenna Research Institute in Tehran
(Iran), the ibn Sīnā Tajik State Medical University in
Dushanbe, Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and
Sciences at Aligarh, India, Avicenna School in Karachi
and Avicenna Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan,[111]
Ibn Sina Balkh Medical School in his native province of
Balkh in Afghanistan, Ibni Sina Faculty Of Medicine of
Ankara University Ankara, Turkey, the main classroom
building (the Avicenna Building) of the Sharif University
of Technology, and Ibn Sina Integrated School in Marawi
City (Philippines) are all named in his honour.

10. Later life and death
 The remaining ten or twelve years of Avicenna's life were spent in the
service of the Kakuyid ruler Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar
(also known as Ala al-Dawla), whom he accompanied as physician
and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous
campaigns.
 During these years he began to study literary matters and philology,
instigated, it is asserted, by criticisms on his style. A severe colic,
which seized him on the march of the army against Hamadan, was
checked by remedies so violent that Avicenna could scarcely stand.
On a similar occasion the disease returned; with difficulty he
reached Hamadan, where, finding the disease gaining ground, he
refused to keep up the regimen imposed, and resigned himself to his
fate.

11. Conti…
• His friends advised him to slow down and take life moderately. He
refused, however, stating that:
• "I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one
with Length”.
• On his deathbed remorse seized him; he bestowed his goods on the
poor, restored unjust gains, freed his slaves, and read through the
Quran every three days until his death.
• He died in June 1037, in his fifty-sixth year, in the month of
Ramadan, and was burid in Hamadan, Iran.