"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."

— Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."

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Era: Medieval

Region: Persian

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

980 – 1037
Medieval Persian

Ibn Sina (c. 980–1037), known as Avicenna, was a Persian polymath regarded as one of the most significant physicians, philosophers, and scientists of the Islamic Golden Age. A child prodigy who had memorized the Quran by age ten and mastered medicine by sixteen, he produced an extraordinary body of work. His Canon of Medicine, a million-word encyclopedia that systematized Greek, Roman, and Islamic medical knowledge, became the standard medical textbook in both the Islamic world and European universities for over five centuries. In philosophy, his Book of Healing developed a comprehensive system integrating Aristotelian logic, Neoplatonic metaphysics, and Islamic theology. He proposed the famous "Floating Man" thought experiment—imagining a person suspended in air with no sensory input—to argue that self-awareness is immediate and independent of the body, anticipating aspects of Descartes' cogito by six centuries.

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