Ibn Sina Essay

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Ibn Sina Ibn Sina was born in 980 C.E. in the village of Afshana near Bukhara which today is located in Uzbekistan, close to Iran, during the time of the Samanid Empire. His father, Abdullah, an adherent of the Ismaili, was from Balkh and his mother from a village near Bukhara. The fact that his father was a governor had allowed Ibn Sina to be educated by some of the greatest scholars in the Samanid Empire. However, Ibn Sina had proved to be independent, having an extraordinary intelligence and memory. Ibn Sina was something of a child prodigy. He had memorized the Qur’an by age of ten as well as many of the contemporary Persian poems at the time. He had learned arithmetic from local scholars as well as studying Islamic Jurisprudence, Philosophy and Natural Sciences for the next 6 years. As a teenager, he was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of Aristotle, which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on the work. Ibn Sina turned to Medicine at the age of seventeen, and not only studied the theory of Medicine but he was also well known for discovering new methods of treatment. The teenager achieved full status as a qualified physician at age eighteen. His fame spread quickly, and he treated many patients without asking for payment. The remaining ten or twelve years of Ibn Sina’s life was spent in the service of Abu Ja'far 'Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous campaigns. During the last years of his life, a severe Colic, Colic" target="_blank"> Colic which seized him on the march of the army against Hamadan, was checked by remedies so violent that Ibn Sina could scarcely stand. On a similar occasion the disease returned, with difficulty he reached Hamadan, where, finding the disease gaining ground, he refused to keep up the regimen imposed, and resigned himself

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