Biography of Ibnu Sina

Name : Sīnā Avicenna
Title : Sharaf al-Mulk, Hujjat al-Haq, Sheikh al-Rayees
Birth : pproximately 980 CE / 370 AH
Death : 1037 CE / 428 AH
Ethnicity : Persian[1]
Region : Central Asia and Persia
Maddhab : Twelver Shi'a Muslim[2]
School tradition : Avicennism[3]
Main interests :
Islamic medicine, alchemy and chemistry in Islam, Islamic astronomy, Islamic ethics, early Islamic philosophy, Islamic studies, logic in Islamic philosophy, Islamic geography, Islamic mathematics, Islamic psychological thought, Islamic physics, Arabic poetry, Persian poetry, Islamic science, Kalam
Notable ideas :
Father of modern medicine and the concept of momentum, founder of Avicennism and Avicennian logic, forerunner of psychoanalysis, pioneer of aromatherapy and neuropsychiatry, and important contributer to geology.
Works :
The Canon of MedicineThe Book of Healing
Influences :
Hippocrates, Sushruta, Charaka, Aristotle, Galen, Plotinus, Neoplatonism, Indian mathematics, Muhammad, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Wasil ibn Ata, al-Kindi, al-Farabi, al-Razi, al-Biruni, Muslim physicians
Influenced :
Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, Omar Khayyám, Algazel, Abubacer, Averroes, Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī, Ibn al-Nafis, Averroism, Scholasticism, Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus, Thomas Aquinas, Jean Buridan, Giambattista Benedetti, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey, René Descartes, Spinoza