Biography ibnu sina
Biography ibnu sina
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Ibn Sina [Avicenna]
1. Life and Works
Life
At some point in his later years, Avicenna wrote for or dictated to his student, companion, and amanuensis, Ab&#;-&#;Ubayd al-J&#;zj&#;n&#;, his Autobiography, reaching till the time in his middle years when they first met; al-J&#;zj&#;n&#; continued the biography after that point and completed it some time after the master’s death in AD.
This auto-/biographical complex, which also contains bibliographies and has been transmitted as a single document (Gohlman ), is an early representative of an Arabic literary genre much cultivated by scientists and scholars in medieval Islam (Gutas ).
It is also our most extensive source about Avicenna’s life and times. According to this document, Avicenna was born in Afshana, a village in the outskirts of metropolitan Bukhara, some time in the 70s of the tenth century, perhaps as early as ; it has not been possible to determine the year of his birth with greater precision.[3] His father