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Abu Ali ibn-Sina (Avicenna) was born in the year 980 in the settlement of Afshana near Bukhara into the family of a local dignitary.

As early as his childhood, ibn-Sina, along with his father, arrived in Bukhara. He familiarized himself with the Koran in his very early days, and did the same with Greek philosophy, geometry and Indian calculation. After finishing school, he studied logic, philosophy and mathematics, under the guidance of his teacher, Abu Abdullah. From the age of 16, he independently studied the scientific works of the Eastern and Western luminaries of science, the representatives of ancient medicine-Hippocrates and Galen, as well as the Eastern doctor Abu Bakr al-Razi (865-925).

Ibn-Sina's scientific interests evolved in two directions: medicine and philosophy. By the age of seventeen he had become a fully developed scholar and had achieved great prestige as a physician.

After the overthrow of the Samanids and the capture of Buhkara by the Karakhanids (between 992 and 999) ibn-Sina went to Urgench, to the palace of the Khorezm Shah where a good number of prominent scholars worked.

At that time in Khorezm, ruled Abui-Abbas Mamun (999-1016) who patronized scholars, poets and painters.

Ibn-Sina's philosophy, expounded in the "Kitab ash-Shifa" ("The book of healing"), is a whole epoch in the history of oriental philosophy. However, it is his classic consolidated work on medicine that has gained him a world reputation, "Kitab al-Kanun fit-Tib" (The canon of medical science). The translation of this work into the Latin language was made at the end of the 15^th century among the incunabula. In one hundred years, in 1593, its Arabic edition was published in Rome. Afterwards, it was to be published many times up to the 17^th century, and became one of the most popular works on medicine in the West. Western medicine was directly impacted by the Canon.

* Abu Ali Ibn Sina in the East was known as Sheikh ar-Rais — (head of the sages), in the West — as Avicenna.

By the age of 17, he had already developed as a scientist and doctor. He cured the Emir Nuh Ibn Mansur, which gave him the right to use the library at the Samanid Palace. Along with other scholars, Ibn Sina worked at the Mamun Academy in Urgench. In 1037, Ibn Sina died and was buried in Hamadan.

Ibn Sina left behind more than 450 works, 43 of them on medicine. In his book "The Canon of medical science", which consists of five volumes, focuses on the issues of healing, special attention is paid to diagnosis, disease symptoms, methods of treatment, prevention of medicinal plants and their features, diet, the value of physical culture for human health and etc. In the XII century. this unique work was translated into Latin and until the XVII century served as a guide and training tool for doctors throughout Europe.