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Ibn Sina
The Man Who Knew Everything
Ehsan Masood
18 January 2013
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Ibn Sina/Avicenna
(980-1037)
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Professed Muslim
Belief in God
Belief in Muhammad as last Prophet
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Laws of nature inviolable
No miracles
No bodily resurrection
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“So: you believe in God but leave little point for God.”
Al Ghazali on Ibn Sina
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1187 First Latin translation of Canon
Universities of Bologna, Padua, Paris, Siena
1674 last known translation
60 editions between 1500 and 1674
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“The Arabs had taken all their knowledge
from the Greeks and, like Harpies, defiled all
that they touched.”
Leonhart Fuchs, 1535 quoted in Avicenna in
Renaissance Italy by Nancy Siraisi
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Among Avicenna’s “errors” are legitimizing
divorce and claiming that miracles have a
natural explanation
Symphorien Champier, 1522, quoted in Siraisi
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“The physicians have nothing to repel these
illnesses and their causes, anymore than they
have anything to explain them.”
“Have complete trust and confidence in God
and endure patience and accept with contentment His decrees.”
Ibn Jawziya in Medicine of the Prophet
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“It is better to hide my pain from pretentious
physicians. Perhaps I will be cured from the
Treasury of the Invisible”
Hafiz, Persian poet
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