PHILOSOPHER

Avicenna

980 - 1037

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Ibn Sina (c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( A(H)V-iss-EN-ə), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought. Often described as the father of early modern medicine, Avicenna's most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Avicenna is the 9th most popular philosopher, the most popular biography from Uzbekistan and the most popular Uzbekistani Philosopher.

Avicenna is most famous for his writings on medicine and philosophy. He wrote the Canon of Medicine, which was the authoritative text on medicine in Europe until the seventeenth century.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Avicenna ranks 9 out of 1,267. Before him are Plato, Socrates, Confucius, Pythagoras, Immanuel Kant, and René Descartes. After him are Laozi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baruch Spinoza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Augustine of Hippo, and Francis Bacon.

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Among people born in 980, Avicenna ranks 1. After him are Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, Pope Benedict VIII, Gisela of Hungary, Olof Skötkonung, Harald II of Denmark, Hemma of Gurk, Tancred of Hauteville, Mokjong of Goryeo, Gerard of Csanád, Humbert I, Count of Savoy, and Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders. Among people deceased in 1037, Avicenna ranks 1. After him are Bermudo III of León, Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Vazul, Odo II, Count of Blois, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Farrukhi Sistani, and Robert II.

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Avicenna ranks 1 out of 190. After him are Timur (1336), Muhammad al-Bukhari (810), Al-Biruni (973), Babur (1483), Islam Karimov (1938), Al-Tirmidhi (824), Shah Rukh (1377), Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (893), Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1327), Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957), and Isma'il ibn Ahmad (849).

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Among philosophers born in Uzbekistan, Avicenna ranks 1. 

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