Ibn Sina

Ibn Sina (c. 980-1037 CE), known in the Latin West as Avicenna, was a Persian philosopher and physician who became one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age. Serving in the courts of various rulers in Iran and Central Asia, he wrote extensively on medicine, philosophy, logic and the natural sciences; his medical encyclopedia, The Canon of Medicine, systematized the medical knowledge of his era and was used as a standard medical textbook in European universities for centuries after its Latin translation. His philosophical writings, which sought to reconcile Aristotelian and Neoplatonist thought with Islamic theology, also had a lasting influence on medieval European Scholastic philosophy, and he is regarded as one of the greatest physicians and thinkers in history.