Collection: Ibn Sina
"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."
Al-Husayn ibn Sina (c. 980 - 1037) is also known as “Avicenna” or the “Father of Medicine”. A Muslim physician, Ibn Sina was one of the most famous and influential philosopher-scientists of the medieval Islamic world. He is particularly known for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. He composed the “Kitāb al-shifa’” (Book of the Cure), a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and “Al-Qānūn fī al-tibb” (The Canon of Medicine), which is among the most famous books in the history of medicineand was the medical system standard for centuries.