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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
A life on the record,
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Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
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Offices held 1
- 1024 CE – 1037 CE vizier
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 3
Avicenna Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037) Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Avicenna connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Documented influence 17
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
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- 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)
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was influenced by Aristotle Greek philosopher -
was influenced by Farabi 10th century Persian philosopher and jurist - was influenced by Galen
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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
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was influenced by Wasil ibn Ata Muslim theologian -
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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)
Sources
Sources and evidence
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21 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 19 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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