Avicenna in a sentence

Nor can modern creations — such as the Avicenna Mausoleum in Hamadan, dedicated to the greatest scholar of the Islamic Golden Age — be omitted from any list of sites of Iranian cultural significance.

This year, the city of Hamadan – where Avicenna, the father of modern medicine, is buried – will host the general assembly of the world tourism organisation.

According to his autobiography, Avicenna had memorised the entire Quran by the age of 10. citation He learned Indian arithmetic from an Indian greengrocer,ءMahmoud Massahi Khorasani Sharaf, Islamic Great Encyclopedia,vol.1.

Albertus critically compared these to the writings of Aristotle and Avicenna, where they concerned the transmutation of metals.

Another historic thought experiment was Avicenna 's " Floating Man " thought experiment in the 11th century.

Arabic scholar Ibn al-Nafis had disputed aspects of Galen's views, providing a model that seems to imply a form of pulmonary circulation in his Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna 's Canon (1242).

Averroes' position that the most logically valid proof should be physical rather than metaphysical (because then metaphysics would be proving itself) was in conscious opposition to the position of Avicenna.

Avicenna argued that the impossible being is that which cannot exist, while the contingent in itself (mumkin bi-dhatihi) has the potentiality to be or not to be without entailing a contradiction.

Avicenna argued that the Islamic prophets should be considered higher than philosophers.

Avicenna considered that the movement of the planets influenced life on earth in a deterministic way, but argued against the possibility of determining the exact influence of the stars.

Avicenna created new scientific vocabulary that had not previously existed in Persian.

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.

Avicenna grounds his psychology on physiology, which means his account of the soul is one that deals almost entirely with the natural science of the body and its abilities of perception.

Avicenna memorized the Quran by the age of ten, and as an adult, he wrote five treatises commenting on suras from the Quran.

Avicenna's psychology requires that connection between the body and soul be strong enough to ensure the soul's individuation, but weak enough to allow for its immortality.

Essentially, Avicenna did not deny the core dogma of astrology, but denied our ability to understand it to the extent that precise and fatalistic predictions could be made from it.

Following al-Farabi's lead, Avicenna initiated a full-fledged inquiry into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence (Mahiat) and existence (Wujud).

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

His native language was Persian" (from "Ibn Sina ("Avicenna")", Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill, second edition (2009).

Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288) wrote a book on Avicennian logic, which was a commentary of Avicenna's Al-Isharat (The Signs) and Al-Hidayah (The Guidance).