Ibn Sina (Avicenna), physician and philosopher, c. 980-1037
Ibn Sina, known in the Western tradition as Avicenna, was the son of an official of the Persian Samanids. He studied law, logic, philosophy and medicine, where he was strongly influenced by Galen and Aristotle. Avicenna quickly became famous as a practicing doctor and philosopher. His most important work is the five-volume "Canon of Medicine" (Kitab al-qanun fi'l-tebb), a summary and renewal of Greco-Roman medicine which has been the leading medical textbook in Europe and the Middle East for over five centuries. The "Book of Healing" (Kitab aš-šifa’) and his treatise on cardiac medication (Al-Adwiyya al-Qalbiyya) further contributed to his fame.

![Kitab al-Mujaz fi al-Tibb [A Summary of Medicine].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-bn60511-324x324.jpg)
![Kitab al-Mujaz fi al-Tibb [A Summary of Medicine].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/img-bn61974-324x324.jpg)
![Kitab al-Mujaz fi al-Tibb [A Summary of Medicine].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/img-bn62446-324x324.jpg)

![[Al Qanun - latine]. Canon medicinae.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/img-bn51006-324x324.jpg)

![Al-Kitab al-Awwal min Kitab al-Qanun fi al-Tibb: Al-Kulliyat [Canon of Medicine, Book I].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/img-bn60513-324x324.jpg)
![Al-Ilahiyat min al-Shifa' [The Metaphysics from the Book of Healing].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/img-bn60462-324x324.jpg)
![Al-Urjuza fi l-tibb [Poem on Medicine] and other medical and alchemical treatises.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/img-bn57153-324x324.jpg)
![Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb [The Canon of Medicine].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/img-bn63828-324x324.jpg)
![Kitab al-kanun fi'l-tibb [Canon of Medicine].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/img-bn68436-324x324.jpg)




![Regimen sanitatis Magnini Mediolanensis [...] Insuper opusculu[m] De flebothomia editum [...] Reginaldo de Villa Nova. Additur quoq[ue] Astronomia Hippocratis [...] de variis egritudinibus et morbis. Item Secreta Hippogratis. Item Averrois De venenis. Ite[m] Quid pro quo apothecariorum [...] Nicolaum [...] Cum no[n]nullis insuper Avicenne [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/img-bn45665-324x324.jpg)

![In primam totam Fen primi libri canonis Avicenn[a]e dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in lucem edita, illustrata, & completa aßiduo labore, & longo studio Marci Oddi Medici eiusdem filij.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/img-bn49631-324x324.jpg)
![[Kitab al-Najah - French]. La logique du fils de Sina, communément appellé Avicenne, prince des philosophes et médecins Arabes.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/img-bn57167-324x324.jpg)

![[Qanunceh] (= Small Canon).](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img-bn58748-324x324.jpg)
![Al-Qanunchah fi al-Tibb [Small Canon].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/img-bn61620-324x324.jpg)
![De febribus [...] in Avic[ennae] quarti canonis fen primam. Dilucida atque optima expositio [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/img-bn46964-324x324.jpg)
![De febribus [...] in Avic[ennae] quarti canonis fen primam. Dilucida atque optima expositio [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/img-bn46144-324x324.jpg)

![Sharh al-qanunchah al-Jaghmini [Commentary on the Small Canon].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/img-bn60466-324x324.jpg)



![Al-Tuhfat al-Sa‘diya fi-t-tibb [Sa‘d’s gift to medicine].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/img-bn62219-324x324.jpg)
