Abu ali ibn sina biography of martin
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Abu ali ibn sina biography of martin
IBN SINA, Abu 'Ali al-Husayn b. 'Abd Allah b. Sina, known in the West as Avicenna. He followed the encyclopedic conception of the sciences that had been traditional since the time of the Greek Sages in uniting philosophy with the study of nature and in seeing the perfection of man as lying in both knowledge and action.
He was also as illustrious a physician as he was a philosopher [see Hikma].
Life.
His life is known to us from authoritative sources. An autobiography covers his first thirty years, and the rest are documented by his disciple al-Juzajani, who was also his secretary and his friend.
He was born in 370/980 in Afshana, his mother's home, near Bukhara.
His native language was Persian.
Abu ali ibn sina avicenna
His father, an official of the Samanid administration, had him very carefully educated at Bukhara. His father and his brother were influenced by Isma'ili propaganda; he was certainly acquainted with its tenets, but refused to adopt them.
His intellectual independence was served by an ext