![]() He composed the Kitab ash-shifa (Book of Healing), a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and Al-Qanoon fi Al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) which is among the most famous books in the history of medicine in both east and west. ![]() He was particularly contributed in the field of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. ![]() The collection of his original observations intended as an appendix to the theoretical works, was unfortunately lost even before publication. He is supposed to have written 105 works upon a great variety of subjects in Arabic and Persian. He became court physician at the age of 18 years. He read avidly and mastered Islamic law, then medicine and finally metaphysics. Thereafter, he studied logic and metaphysics under teachers whom he soon outgrew and then spent the few years until he reached the age of 18 years in his own self education. With an exceptional memory he had memorized the Quran and much Arabic poetry by the age of 10 year. He was born in the village Afshena near Khorasan in Iran on August, 980AD (Safar 370H) and brought as a child to Bukhara where he received his earliest education under the direction of his father who was a high official. Abu Ali Al-Husain Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina who has been called the prince of physicians, known as Avicenna in the west.
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