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Ibn Sina
980-1037 CE · Persia and Central Asia (present-day Uzbekistan and Iran)
Ibn Sina (980-1037 CE), known in the Western world as Avicenna, was a Persian Muslim philosopher and physician. He was born near Bukhara in what…
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"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its…"
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