Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, alchemy, chemistry, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy, physics, poetry, science, and theology, and he was also a statesman and soldier. Avicenna was born around 980 (370 AH) in Afshana near Bukhara in Khorasan (now part of Uzbekistan), and died in 1037 (428 AH) in Hamadan (now in Iran). Wikipedia
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