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Avicenna
ابن سينا ar ابن سینا fa
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
- Dated c. 980 CE – 18 June 1037 CE
- Also called Abitianus, Ibn Sīnā, Alraaʼys Ibn sīnā
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Offices held 1
- 1024 CE – 1037 CE vizier
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 3
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Documented influence 17
- was influenced by Abu Bakr al-Razi
- was influenced by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
- was influenced by Al-Biruni
- was influenced by Al-Kindi Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
- was influenced by Aristotle Greek philosopher
- was influenced by Farabi 10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
- was influenced by Galen
- was influenced by Hippocrates Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC)
- was influenced by Ibn Zuhr
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- was influenced by Muhammad Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)
- was influenced by Plotinus
- was influenced by Wasil ibn Ata Muslim theologian
- influenced Albertus Magnus German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
- influenced Averroes Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
- influenced Benedictus de Spinoza Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
- influenced Moshe ben Maimon Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
- influenced Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
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