Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 - 1037
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Ibn Sina or Avicenna was the most influential of all Islamic philosopher-scientists. He wrote on medicine as well as geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music.
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