Scholar · 980 to 1037
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Physician and philosopher from near Bukhara. His Canon of Medicine was taught in European universities for about five hundred years.
At a glance
- Lived
- 980 to 1037
- Role
- Scholar
- Era
- Three caliphs at once
- Chapter
- 3. The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
Ibn Sina's world
1000: Three caliphs at once
From 929 to 1031 three rulers called themselves caliph: the Abbasid in Baghdad, the Fatimid in Cairo and the Umayyad in Cordoba. In the east, Mahmud of Ghazni led seventeen campaigns into India between 1001 and 1027.
People of the same era
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