Avicena (Abu ali al Husain ibn Abdalllah ibn Sina, sutrumpintai Ibn Sina[1]; 980 m. netoli Bucharos – m. 1037 m. Persijos Hamadane) – persų kilmės,[2] tačiau daugiausia arabiškai rašęs gydytojas ir filosofas. Taip pat rašė teisės, matematikos, astronomijos, muzikos klausimais. Persiškai kūrė poemas ir lyrinius eilėraščius, arabiškai – apysakas. Avicena laikomas Islamo aukso amžiaus vienu svarbiausiu gydytoju, astronomu, mąstytoju,[3] ankstyvosios modernios medicinos tėvu.[4][5][6]
↑Avicenna and the Visionary Recital (anglų). Princeton University Press. 2016-04-19. ISBN9780691630540. Nuoroda tikrinta 2018-08-12. „In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics.“
"He was born in 370/980 in Afshana, his mother's home, near Bukhara. His native language was Persian" (from "Ibn Sina ("Avicenna")", Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill, second edition (2009). Accessed via Brill Online at www.encislam.brill.nl).
"Avicenna was the greatest of all Persian thinkers; as physician and metaphysician ..." (excerpt from A.J. Arberry, Avicenna on Theology, KAZI PUBN INC, 1995).
"Whereas the name of Avicenna (Ibn Sina, died 1037) is generally listed as chronologically first among noteworthy Iranian philosophers, recent evidence has revealed previous existence of Ismaili philosophical systems with a structure no less complete than of Avicenna" (from p. 74 of Henry Corbin, The Voyage and the messenger: Iran and philosophy, North Atlantic Books, 1998.
↑Roudgari, Hassan (2018-12-28). „Ibn Sina or Abu Ali Sina (ابن سینا c. 980 –1037) is often known by his Latin name of Avicenna (ævɪˈsɛnə/)“. Journal of Iranian Medical Council. 1 (2): 0. ISSN2645-338X. „Avicenna was a Persian polymath and one of the most famous physicians from the Islamic Golden Age. He is known as the father of early modern medicine and his most famous work in Medicine called "The Book of Healing", which became a standard medical textbook at many European universities and remained in use up to the recent centuries.“