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The Connections of Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years Every person recorded alongside Ibn Sina (Avicenna) in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Ibn Sina (Avicenna) in the ledgers of the archive.
- Teachers
- Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi, Abu Abdullah Nateli, Qumri
- Students
- Bahmanyār, Ibn Abi Sadiq, Ali ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi
- Influenced by
- Al-Biruni, Plotinus, Prophet Muhammad, Galen, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Al-Kindi, Ibn Zuhr, Wasil ibn Ata, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
- Influenced
- Thomas Aquinas, Omar Khayyam, Maimonides, Albertus Magnus, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 980 CE to 1037.
Medieval era
William the Conqueror
November 8, 1028 – September 9, 1087
King of England from 1066 to 1087, Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 (1028–1087)
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – September 25, 1072
Sufi mystic
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period
Medieval era
Su Shi
January 8, 1037 – August 24, 1101
Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)
Medieval era
Sei Shonagon
966 CE – 1025
Japanese author and court lady
Medieval era
Ly Thai To
March 8, 974 CE – 1028
Vietnamese emperor
Medieval era
Anawrahta
May 11, 1014 – April 11, 1077
Founder of the Pagan Empire