Avicenna

Arabic �Ibn Sina, �in full� Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Sina � Iranian physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam. He was particularly noted for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. He composed the Kitab ash-shifa' (�Book of Healing�), a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and the Canon of Medicine, which is among the most