History of medicine: Ibn Sina

Also known as

• ابن سینا‎
• Abu Ali Sina (ابوعلی سینا)
• Pur Sina (پورسی)
• Avicenna

 

Life

• 980 CE : Born in Bukhara, Samanid Empire (modern Uzbekistan)
• 997 CE : Appointed as physician to the local Amir Nuh ibn Mansur of the Samanid dynasty.
• 1004 CE : End of the Samanid Empire. 
• 1015 CE : Summoned by Amir Shams al-Dawla of the Buyid dynasty.
• 1024 CE : Invited by Amir Muhammad ibn Rustam Dushmanziyar of the Kakuyid dynasty.
  
• 1037 CE : Died in Hamadan, Kakuyid Emirate (modern Iran) (aged 56-57).

Great works

• 1025 CE : القانون في الطب‎ (The Canon of Medicine) (al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb) 
• 1027 CE : كتاب الشفاء (Kitāb al-Šifā) (The book of healing)
• Wrote ~ 450 works. ~ 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.

 

Significance in history  

•  Influenced Islamic and European medicine for centuries.

 

Quotes

“Medicine is no hard and thorny science like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress; I became an excellent physician and began to treat patients using approved remedies.”