Avicenna: Prince of Physicians

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Summary: Abu Ali Sina AKA Avicenna
Review: I think this book is a good start for a youngester to learn more about Persian historical figures. I recomend it, with an adult supervision for adding/correcting additional info. One comment I would like to add is that I don't understand why so many times when there is an attempt in the west to write about a scientist/poet etc. who was a Muslim, they are introduced as Arab. This laziness is so incredibly common. Abu Ali Sina, just as Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayam, and many other Muslim figures, was Persian (Iranian). You don't have to be an Arab to be Muslim (no disrespect to my Arab brethrens intended).

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Summary: An enjoyable reading
Review: It is not common to find an english book about the eastern philosophers and scientists that is also written for children. This book has a nice story about Avicenna with easy to understand and explain segments. The quality of the print and minature paintings also help to share the book with others. I enjoyed it and so did my son.

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Summary: Abu Ali Sina AKA Avicenna
Review: The anonymous reviewer who chimed in with her (lack of) knowledge of Avicenna (Abu Ali Sina as he is known to us Iranians), has very little to do with the book itself! Further more, even if what she states were to be true it does not diminish Avicenna's stature as a Scientist , a Philosopher or a Physician. The book is a good start in learning about one of the brightest, most prolific and brilliant scientific brains of all times. I would recommend it very highly.
Now to clarify some confusion:
Avicenna, was never an Arab. He was born in the region of Bokhara, 980 ; died in Hamadan, in Northern Iran, 1037, where he is buried. Before he had completed his twenty-first year he wrote his famous "Canon" of medical science, which for several centuries, after his time, remained the principal authority in medical schools both in Europe and in Asia. He served successively several Persian Kings as physician and adviser, traveling with them from place to place, and despite the habits of conviviality for which he was well known, devoted much time to literary labors, as is testified by the hundred volumes which he wrote in Persian (aka Farsi). Knowledge of Arabic doesn't make him an Arab. As writing medical papers in English (the scientific language of our time) doesn't make European scientists American!

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Summary: Clearing the Myth!
Review: The anonymous reviewer who chimed in with her (lack of) knowledge of Avicenna (Abu Ali Sina as he is known to us Iranians), has very little to do with the book itself! Further more, even if what she states were to be true it does not diminish Avicenna's stature as a Scientist , a Philosopher or a Physician. The book is a good start in learning about one of the brightest, most prolific and brilliant scientific brains of all times. I would recommend it very highly.
Now to clarify some confusion:
Avicenna, was never an Arab. He was born in the region of Bokhara, 980 ; died in Hamadan, in Northern Iran, 1037, where he is buried. Before he had completed his twenty-first year he wrote his famous "Canon" of medical science, which for several centuries, after his time, remained the principal authority in medical schools both in Europe and in Asia. He served successively several Persian Kings as physician and adviser, traveling with them from place to place, and despite the habits of conviviality for which he was well known, devoted much time to literary labors, as is testified by the hundred volumes which he wrote in Persian (aka Farsi). Knowledge of Arabic doesn't make him an Arab. As writing medical papers in English (the scientific language of our time) doesn't make European scientists American!