Muslims and others?..do you know of Abu Ali Ibn Sina?

Question

11Th cent..most excellent man! A prodigy from all accounts who made significant contributions to physics, mathematics and medicine, but foremost to philosophy and religion. He subsumed the works of Plato and Aristotle and even anticipated Aquinas. He attempted to reconcile both. Perhaps pope ratzinger should quote him instead..were he alive today, would there be such a distressing rift between Islam and Judeo-Christianity?

Answer 1

of course i know Ibn Sina!!

http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/ibn_sina/


brother! the humans of this day and age are the filth of the earth pardon my language!!

we are nothing compared to those great people who were tolerant to each others differences and knew how to get along.

Muslims back then were totally different they were men of God, Knowledge and Honor.

Answer 2

i don't know how you know about ibn sina?he was genius trully but there were like him and may be better if you checked muslims history, in medical and astrology sciences and philosophy also in many other fields as literature,you can check abi hamed al ghazali he was very good in islamic philosopy,about distressing no way to rift because don't want to give up for muslims in any thing,any way if blind man can't see the sun light it doesn't mean sun is not rising or exist.about the pope let him check christianity history how much they changed the bible many many times till became completely change from how was in jesus time as they have at least 4 differnent copies and the fifth one named as bernaba do not respecting him because it talks about mohammad ad last prophet pbuh.

Answer 3

He used to be called "Ibn Sina" but in Western World as Avicienna. He is "the Father of Modern Medicine" after his marvellous piece of medical encyclopedia in "al Qanun fi al Tibb" or in Western "Canon of Medicine".

Of course, he also do corrections on several ancient medical discoveries including blood circulation theory from the Father of Ancient Medicine; Hippocrates. Until today, he's the best figure in medical field.

Answer 4

If he was alive today, it doesn't matter, since the serpent was released around 400 years ago and go out to deceive nations.

There's a good chance Ibn Sina probably would be assasinated to increase more on the distressing rift, sorta like the recent Litvinenko event or the attempt done by a 'Turkish' on John Paul II.

Answer 5

I did not know that name and looked it up. As soon as it said Avicenna then I knew who you meant. Yes he was the most famous Doctor and Professor of medicine in Europe for over 400 years.

Answer 6

Yes, also known by his latinised name of Avicienna (980-1037CE). He wrote about beauty, earth sciences, philosophy, numbers and medicine.

One of his works, translated from arabic to latin, was the encyclopaedia of philosophy and earth sciences ("Kitab Al-Shifa") which inspired Leonardo Da Vinci.

Answer 7

Thanks for the question as well as its very adequate answer. To the West, he is known very well with his westernised name. That is Avicenna, the Philosipher, Mystic, Physician, Scientist... Like the other great Muslim philisopher's westernised name Averrous. His Muslim name was Ibn e Rushd of Spain.

Answer 8

Muslim, Hindu, Christian or Jew anyone who preaches tolerance and acceptance is a good person.

Answer 9

he sounds like a good person.