Persian physician and philosopher — author of the Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb) and The Book of Healing — who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic theology and whose Canon of Medicine was the primary medical textbook in Europe and the Islamic world for 500 years.
Creates the medieval synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Islamic theology — Avicenna's philosophical system resolved the tensions between Aristotle's eternal universe and Islamic creationism through a distinction between essence and existence; his Canon of Medicine organized all medical knowledge into a systematic encyclopedia that defined medical education for half a millennium.
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