{"title":"Ibn Sīnā","authors":"Shams Inati","doi":"10.1201/9781003070733-20","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Islam's most renowned philosopher-scientist (9801037), Ibn-Sina was a court physician in Persia, and wrote two of history's greatest works, The Book of Healing, a compendium of science and philosophy, and The Canon of Medicine, an encyclopedia based on the teachings of Greek physicians. The latter was widely used in the West, where Ibn-Sina, known as Avicenna, was called the \"prince of physicians.\"","PeriodicalId":40589,"journal":{"name":"Nazariyat-Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nazariyat-Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003070733-20","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
Islam's most renowned philosopher-scientist (9801037), Ibn-Sina was a court physician in Persia, and wrote two of history's greatest works, The Book of Healing, a compendium of science and philosophy, and The Canon of Medicine, an encyclopedia based on the teachings of Greek physicians. The latter was widely used in the West, where Ibn-Sina, known as Avicenna, was called the "prince of physicians."