Ibn Sina

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā  ابن سینا)
Conventional modern portrait (on a silver vase, Avicenna Mausoleum and Museum, Hamadan)
Born	22 August 980 Afshona, Peshkunskiy, Bukhara, Samanid Empire
Died	21 June 1037 (aged 57) Hamadān, Kakuyid Emirate
Residence	Samanid Empire Ziyarid Tabaristan Buyid Persia
Other names	Sharaf al-Mulk Hujjat al-Haq Sheikh al-Rayees Ibn-Sino (Abu Ali Abdulloh Ibn-Sino) Bu Alī Sīnā (بو علی سینا)
Academic background
Influences	Hippocrates Aristotle Galen Neoplatonism al-Kindi al-Farabi Rhazes Al-Biruni al-Masihi Abul Hasan Hankari
Academic work
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Main interests	Medicine Aromatherapy Philosophy and logic Kalām (Islamic theology) Science Poetry
Notable works	The Book of Healing The Canon of Medicine
Influenced	Al-Biruni Omar Khayyám Averroes Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi Tusi Ibn al-Nafis Ibn Tufail Albertus Magnus Maimonides Aquinas William of Ockham Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani Enlightenment philosophers

Avicenna or Ibn-Sīnā (Arabic: ابن سینا‎‎; c. 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.

Of the 450 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.