Ibn Sina A Concise Life

Ibn Sina A Concise Life

Ibn Sina (980-1037 CE), or Avicenna as he came to be known in the West, was the man who everything. But did you know that his life was full of intrigue, plots, desperate escapes and long imprisonments?

In this short biography you will discover how Ibn Sina revolutionised philosophy and medicine and made lasting contributions to mathematics and science, while serving viziers, amirs and sultans, and fleeing from them too. Due to the scope and brilliance of Ibn Sina's work, he can be described as the Leonardo Da Vinci of the Islamic World.