The 10th-century physician Ibn Sina whose full name was Abu Ali al-Husayn Abd Allah ibn Sina belonged to Bukhara, Iran. He is known to be the most influential of the philosopher-scientists of the medieval Islamic world. He has contributed to the field of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. His major contributions are his books; Kitab al-Shifa (Book of the Cure) which is a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia and Al-Qanun fial-tibb (The Canon of Medicine) which is among the most famous books in the history of medicine. He was the legendary person who has read and memorized the entire Holy Quran at the age of 10. He started to study Hellenistic authors on his own. His intelligence led him towards medicine at the age of 16 and he cured the Sultan of Bukhara who was ill. For his service, the sultan opened the royal Samanid library for him that introduce Ibn Sina to the vast end of science and philosophy.
Moreover, he was not just a philosopher and physician but also had expertise in the field of mathematics, geometry, astronomy, physics, metaphysics, philology, music, and poetry. He had been involved in politics as well during his time at Esfahan. During that time he wrote two more books; Danish nama-i alai (Book of knowledge) and Kitab al-najat (Book of Salvation) and also worked on astronomical tables. The curer Ibn Sina cured himself of colic illness. The prophetic Ibn Sina had composed his most important work of philosophy and science Kitab al-Shifa into four parts covering logic, physics, mathematics, and metaphysics. He is the one who had classified the knowledge and had it easy for us. He had categorized philosophy, art, and science into second-order concepts. Whereas he had put eight principal sciences including science of general principles, celestial and terrestrial bodies and of primary elements, as well as meteorology, mineralogy, botany. Zoology and psychology.
Further, he had divided mathematics into four principal sciences; numbers and arithmetic, geometry and geography, astronomy, and music. In metaphysics, he has categorized medicine, astrology, physiognomy, oneiromancy (the art of dream interpretation), talismans (objects with the magical power to blend the celestial forces), and theurgy (secrets of prodigies).
Ibn Sina had remained the center of study till now especially by the Europeans who have been inspired by him. His book The Canon of Medicine provides a full fledge knowledge of medical science which has helped in all the medical fields. He has composed everything with the height of intelligence. He is not a prominent figure in Islamic history but in all over the world. Indeed he was a gift from Allah.
