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Ibn Sina
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, the Shaykh al-Ra''is: a physician of Bukhara and a Persian philosopher of the eleventh century, author of the Canon of Medicine that stayed medicine''s reference in Islamic and European universities for six centuries. He memorized the books before age ten and treated kings as a teenager, moving between the courts of Hamadan and Isfahan, healing and writing. He wrote the Healing encyclopedia from logic to astronomy, joining Greek philosophy to Islamic thought in a system of his own. He died in Hamadan in 1037 at fifty-seven; to Europeans he stayed ''Avicenna'', a name for medicine itself. From Bukhara his wisdom went out to the world: the Canon became medicine's first book from Cordoba to Cologne, the Healing his age's greatest philosophical encyclopaedia, and his name stayed Latin — Avicenna — a headline in the history of thought. For this Muslims see in him the golden age's summit: science, philosophy and medicine in one man.