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  1. Avicenna, ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sinanoun

    Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)

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  1. ibn-sina

    Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Sajjad H. Rizvi has called Avicenna "arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era". He was a Muslim Peripatetic philosopher influenced by Greek Aristotelian philosophy. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry.

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  1. ibn-sina

    Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, was a Persian polymath and one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He is also considered one of the most significant of the Islamic philosophers. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, one of the most important textbooks in the history of medical education.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ibn-Sina in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ibn-Sina in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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