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Avicenna
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Avicenna (980–1037), Persian-born Islamic philosopher and physician; Arabic name ibn-Sina. His philosophical system, drawing on Aristotle but in many ways closer to Neoplatonism, was the major influence on the development of scholasticism. His
Canon of Medicine, which combined his own knowledge with Roman and Arabic medicine, was a standard medieval medical text.
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Avicenna's Position Concerning the Basis of the Divine Creative Action*
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Avicenna maintains that God's creative action...natural things. This interpretation of Avicenna's position is supported by his denial...universe is necessary. Despite the above, Avicenna argues that creation is a voluntary action...
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Avicenna and essentialism.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...EXISTENCE has been taken to be central to Avicenna's metaphysics and ontology of being...some Medievalists and Orientalists took Avicenna's distinction between essence and existence...the translation and understanding of Avicenna's works. However the interpretive...
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Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context. By ROBERT...Pp. 1x + 305. Robert Wisnovsky's Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context is arguably...the most important works to come out on Avicenna to date. Wisnovsky has a superb mastery...
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Avicenna Signs Marketing Agreement With AT&T 45,000 Physicians Get Chance to Access Internet
PR Newswire; 10/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...Mass., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Avicenna Systems Corp. today announced a joint...convenient, high-quality Internet access to Avicenna's Medical Information Supersite through...agreement, 45,000 physicians chosen by Avicenna will receive access software for AT...
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AVICENNA DEBUTS NEW WORLD WIDE WEB MEDICAL SUPERSITE; INKS AGREEMENTS WITH BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD
PR Newswire; 7/8/1996; 700+ words
; ...Mass., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Avicenna Systems Corp., a privately held healthcare...abbreviations, the public supersite, managed by Avicenna's MedResults Division, brings the...convenient location (http://www.avicenna.com), with access to a vast, up...
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Avicenna to Build Private Intranet for Emerson Hospital Lays Groundwork for Enterprise-wide Access to Healthcare Information
PR Newswire; 11/20/1996; 700+ words
; ...Mass., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Avicenna Systems Corp. today announced that it...Instead, the hospital has partnered with Avicenna to provide access to all of the records using Internet technology. Additionally, Avicenna will integrate the hospital's existing...
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Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 11/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...medicine, the great Persian scholar Avicenna left a wealth of information in his many...Disease, sharing in English details of Avicenna's work that still fascinate both physicians...Hashemi and Mohsen Raza dug deep into Avicenna's original ancient text, housed in...
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A new standard for Avicenna studies.(Ibn Sina, lettre au vizir Abu Sa'd: Editio princeps d'apres le manuscrit de Bursa)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the life, times, and philosophy of Avicenna has witnessed a resurgence among scholars...1988 publication of Dimitri Gutas's Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (1...were treated to an evaluation of work on Avicenna since the millennary celebrations of...
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American-Academy of Physician Assistants Chooses Avicenna; Avicenna Reaches 32,000 Registered Users
PR Newswire; 9/16/1996; 700+ words
; ...Assistants (AAPA) has designated the Avicenna Medical Information Supersite as an on...on the World Wide Web. The AAPA and Avicenna Systems Corp. made the announcement...decision-making tools available today, Avicenna will develop a special location within...
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Avicenna Latinus. Liber Primus Naturalium. Tractatus Secundus. De motu et de consimilibus.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; AVICENNA Latinus. Liber Primus Naturalium. Tractatus...This publication forms the tenth volume of the Avicenna Latinus series, whose aim is to edit the medieval Latin translations of Avicenna's (Arabic Ibn Sina, d. 1037) works, in...
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Avicenna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Avicenna Avicenna (ca. 980-1037) was an Arabic physician and philosopher. He wove...12th to the 17th century. Born in Afshana in the district of Bukhara, Avicenna, or Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Addullah ibn Sina, was the son of a government...
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Avicenna (980-1037)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Avicenna (980-1037) Named Aben Sina by Hebrew...clarify in a 20-volume commentary. Avicenna's reputation for wisdom and erudition...doctrines of the ancient Greek physicians. Avicenna subsequently lived at Rai, Karzw...
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Unani-Tibbi
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...Zahrawi (930 – 1013) Avicenna (980 – 1037) Ibn Al...960 – 1040) Ibn Sina (Avicenna), (980 – 1037) Ibn...unani-tibbi physicians included: Avicenna was the first to describe meningitis...
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Averroës
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...civilization, culminated in the work of Avicenna (980-1037), Avempace (died 1138), and Averroës. Avicenna expanded upon the work of such earlier...after al-Ghazali, who had attacked Avicenna and all philosophy, and living in...
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Abu’l-Barakāt Al-Baghdādī, Hibat Allah
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Logic, Naturalia , and Metaphysics of Avicenna ’ s voluminous Kit ā...x2019; s many bold deviations from Avicenna ’ s physics and metaphysics...psychology is identical with that of Avicenna and is obviously taken over from the...
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