Avicenna
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Persian polymath, physician and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ibn Sina , commonly known in the West as Avicenna , was the preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. He is often described as the father of early modern medicine. His philosophy was of the Muslim Peripatetic school derived from Aristotelianism.
