Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latinization of name of Ibn Sina (980-1037), Persian philosopher and physician. Full name Abū âAlī al-Husayn ibn âAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā al-Balkhī.
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Avicenna (; Latinized form of Ibn-Sīnā, full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā ; – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.. . .
- "He was born in 370/980 in Afshana, his mother's home, near Bukhara. His native language was Persian" (from "Ibn Sina ("Avicenna")", Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill, second edition (2009). Accessed via Brill Online at www.encislam.brill.nl).
- "Avicenna was the greatest of all Persian thinkers; as physician and metaphysician ..." ( from A.J. Arberry, Avicenna on Theology, KAZI PUBN INC, 1995).
- "Whereas the name of Avicenna (Ibn Sina, died 1037) is generally listed as chronologically first among noteworthy Iranian philosophers, recent evidence has revealed previous existence of Ismaili philosophical systems with a structure no less complete than of Avicenna" (from p. 74 of Henry Corbin, The Voyage and the messenger: Iran and philosophy, North Atlantic Books, 1998.
Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.
His most famous works are The Book of Healing – a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine – a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York.
Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and poetry.
Avicenna is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the western limb on the northern rim of the Lorentz basin. It is named after the Persian physician Avicenna. It lies to the north-northwest of the larger crater Nernst, and to the southeast of Bragg.
The northern half of Avicenna has been obliterated by subsequent, overlapping impacts. The southern and southeastern rim is worn and eroded, but the outline can still be discerned. There is a small crater lying across the southern rim, although this formation is equally worn. Several small craters lie across the southern extent of Avicenna's floor.
Usage examples of "avicenna".
But his image of Avicenna was ten years old and full of big, sunny rooms and flowery, winy, rickety houses where all his friends lived.
Persian polymath Ibn Sina, famous in Christendom as Avicenna, and through him the learning of the Greeks, by which was meant Aristotle and the Neo-Platonists.
In being sceptical of astrology, Khayyam was in tune with Avicenna, who wrote a book refuting it.
He offended the ruler by his defence of Avicenna and contempt for this opponent, a man the prince favoured.
The fame of an Avicenna or Omar Khayyam would make it easy for philosophical verses to be put under their names.
Farrell returned to Avicenna after years away, he found his oldest friend Ben living with an unattractive older woman named Sia.
A stranger would have missed it, but Farrell still knew an Avicenna dawn when he saw one.
They sat by the pool, talking quietly, while jets of water from the inlets thumped against their hanging legs and lights fluttered in the Avicenna hills beyond the small wired windows.
Parnell, almost on the invisible line dividing student Avicenna from the rest of the town.
Farrell wondered whether the light reflected into his own face came from the setting sun of Avicenna or Palestine.
Farrell, and with those words the great forest fled, and they were back in the vaguely pleasant little room that Farrell remembered, with the windows full of nothing but Avicenna twilight and an old man and woman laughing on a street corner.
Cardanus gets a story from Avicenna, of a certain man bit by a serpent, who recovered of his bite, the snake dying therefrom.
Avicen, or Avicenna, was among the distinguished physicians of the Arabian school in the eleventh century, and very popular in the Middle Ages.
It is often said that Blessed Albertus Magnus wrote thus: Non approbo dictum Avicennae et Algazel de fascinatione, quia credo quod non nocet fascinatio, nec nocere potest ars magica, nec facit aliquid ex his quae timentur de talibus.