<a href="/article/ibn-sina">Ibn Sina</a>

<a href="/article/ibn-sina">Ibn Sina</a>, also known as Avicenna in the West, was a brilliant Persian polymath from the <a href="/article/islamic-golden-age">Islamic Golden Age</a>. He was a physician, philosopher, astronomer, and logician, whose writings profoundly influenced both the Islamic world and medieval Europe, especially in medicine and philosophy. His most famous works, <a href="/article/the-canon-of-medicine">The Canon of Medicine</a> and <a href="/article/the-book-of-healing">The Book of Healing</a>, became standard texts for centuries.