His work shaped our understanding of medicine and philosophy, while his books were studied from Spain to India. So why do so many Arab students today have little understanding of who Avicenna was?

Avicenna was prodigious from youth, claiming in his autobiography to have mastered all known philosophy by 18. Avicenna’s output was extraordinarily prolific. One estimate of his body of work ...

Born in the tenth century, Avicenna lived at the height of the Islamic Golden Age. He spent most of his life engaging with philosophy, science, and theology, having memorised the Quran at age ten ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The famous philosopher Avicenna or Abu Ali Sina (980 and 1037A.D.) was an Iranian scientist and physician known as The Eastern Genius. The tomb of Avicenna is situated in Bu ...

He said that in his two masterpieces “The Book of Healing” and “The Book of Directives and Remarks”, Avicenna compiled the bases of philosophy in an unprecedented way. Karaki stated that the main ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 11 (MNA) -- The Avicenna philosophy award was presented to Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli for his lifetime efforts in teaching and promoting philosophy. The award was presented during ...

To be sure, Avicenna was a Muslim philosopher/physician in direct descendants from his Greek predecessors. In the words of the eminent Iraqi historian of Islamic philosophy, the late Muhsin Mahdi: ...