Avicenne – Ibn Sina

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This study attempts to present the educational aspects of an Arab thinker considered by ancient and modern scholars alike as the most famous of the Muslim philosophers.2 Thus al-Dhahbi describes him as ‘the leader of Islamic philosophy’.3 G.C. Anawati has prepared a full bibliography of Avicenna’s writings.4 In 1950, to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of his birth, the Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya (Egyptian National Library) published a printed list of the titles of his works and their commentaries which are preserved there. We need only consult this list, containing more than 150 printed works and manuscripts and including all the branches of knowledge in his day, even poetry, to evaluate the extent of the culture which
Avicenna acquired and handed on to us.