A thousand years ago, there lived in Bukhara a brilliant man named Abu Ali Hussein ibn Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Sina. Nowadays he is better known as Avicenna.



He was a Persian scientist, philosopher, physician, poet, musician, mathematician, and representative of Eastern Aristotelianism. A little over 100 years after his death, on the orders of religious fanatics in Baghdad, Ibn Sina's philosophical books will be burned in the main square, and a few hundred years later in Europe, after the invention of the printing press, huge five volumes of the Canon of Medical Science will be printed immediately after the Bible.

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