# Ibn Sina

- id: ibn-sina
- name in original script: ابن سينا
- also known as: Avicenna
- dates: c. 980–1037
- roles: author

Philosopher and physician of Bukhara, Jurjan, Rayy, Hamadan and Isfahan, usually while employed as a court vizier. He wrote the Canon of Medicine in stages across those cities; Europe knew him as Avicenna and taught him for six centuries.

## Works in the atlas

- Canon of Medicine (qanun)

## Sources

- Gutas, Dimitri (2016). Ibn Sina [Avicenna].