Ibn Sina ابن سينا

Ibn Sina is known as pioneer of neuropsychiatry, thought experiment, self-awareness and self-consciousness.

Full Name: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn bin ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ḥasan bin ʿAlī bin Sīnā al-Balkhi al-Bukhari.

Other Names: Avicenna.

Arabic: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن الحسن بن علي بن سينا البلخي البخاري

Origin: Afshana, Transoxiana, Samanid Empire (near Bukhara, Iran, now in Uzbekistan).

Born: 980 AD.

Died: 1037 AD.

Famous for: Philosopher and Physician.

Contribution:

Avicenna authored a five-volume medical encyclopedia, al-Qānūn fī l-ṭibb.

Kitāb al-shifāʾ (Book of the Cure), a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia.

Earth sciences such as geology in The Book of Healing.

Honor

UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science

Articles

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Avicenna

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000043007

Books attributed to Ibn Sina