Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Medieval980-1037 CEBukhara, Persia
As Your Guide
“Avicenna will diagnose your soul with the rigor of a physician examining a patient. He strips away the body, the senses, and the world to find what remains. Choose him if you want a guide who treats self-knowledge as an exact science.”
Who They Were
Persian polymath who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic theology.
What They Left Behind
Words that outlived their authors.
What Haunts Them
These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.
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