Iran’s Science Luminaries
Avicenna: The Great Iranian Scientist, Philosopher, and Physician
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) the great Iranian scientist, philosopher, and physician lived in the 11th century and wrote many books in different fields.
Up until today, his effect on these fields has remained on the east side and west side of the world and much progress in the main areas of knowledge has been based on his opinions and views.
Avicenna is not only one of the greatest philosophers in the world but also one of the most prominent figures in the history of medicine of all time. The book Qanun (the canon of medicine) is his most important work about medicine, this book is Avicenna’s most important and comprehensive book and among the influential medical books in the civilization of Iran after Islam and one of the most important works of the Old World’s doctors.
In addition to philosophy and medicine, he is one of the genius minds in music, mathematics, astrology, logic, literature, and poetry from the distant past to now.
Avicenna’s philosophical system
Avicenna’s philosophical system in general and particularly considering some principles has had the most profound and lasting effect on Islamic philosophy and even European philosophy in the middle ages. This system is a combination of the most important fundamental elements in Aristotle’s peripatetic school and some certain elements of Neoplatonic world-view relative to the Islamic/religious world-view. Avicenna followed Aristotle’s fundamental ideas, clarified the vague points of his belief, and sometimes he would add to them.
Avicenna strived to establish a new philosophical system with the help of some elements from Plotinus and Neoplatonic ideas, but due to the occurrences in life especially a sudden death his efforts came to nothing.
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