#avicenna

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Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment

Ibn Sina and Biruni were two of the most outstanding thinkers to have lived between ancient Greece and the European Renaissance. These two giants of a lost era of enlightenment were born in Central Asia about the year 980. For six hundred years Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine defined the field of medicine from Europe to India, while his thoughts on God and philosophy influenced Muslims, Jews, and Christians, including St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Observe your life, between two breaths. […] On this wind you have built your life— but how will a castle rest on a cloud?

— IBN SINA ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Magnus Marston/Avicenna - Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Will Kempen/James St Clair - Dark Rise series by C.S. Pacat

Norma/Badyah - Deadendia by Hamish Steele

Lula Talisola/Zeen Mrala - Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older

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Wise Quotes from Ibn Sina…

"Ibn Sina, (also known as Avicenna) was a polymath born in 980 AD in Bukhara, present-day Uzbekistan. He made significant contributions to medicine, philosophy, astronomy, and mathematics. His most famous work, “The Canon of Medicine,” became a standard medical textbook for centuries.

Ibn Sina’s philosophical masterpiece, “The Book of Healing,” explored various topics in metaphysics and ethics. He died in 1037 AD in Hamadan, Iran, leaving a lasting legacy in the history of science and philosophy."

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The Riddle of the Sphinx

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LJS 426 is a copy in Arabic of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, popular through the middle ages and translated and copied widely. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are replacements.

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Al-Rhazi and Ibn Sina kept alive and advanced much medical knowledge that had largely vanished from Europe – knowledge that had originated in Ancient Greece and Rome, and then spread through Constantinople and Gundeshapur to Baghdad and Bukhara, where it was combined with learnings from India and China, and was eventually translated back into European languages to form a basis for the flowering of the Renaissance. This reawakening of Classical thought inaugurated the age of the university, when medical schools were established throughout Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.

  —  Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine (Steve Parker)

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Seeing an hour and 20 minute Let's Talk Religion video about Ibn Sina pop up in my feed has me vibrating rn.

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Avicenna’s Canon brilliantly synthesises Islamic medicine with that of Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC) and Galen (129 – 200 AD). There are also elements of ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. This was supplemented by Avicenna’s extensive medical experiences.

In the Canon, Avicenna introduced diagnoses and treatments for illnesses unknown to the Greeks, being the first doctor to describe meningitis. He made new arguments for the use of anaesthetics, analgesics, and anti-inflammatory substances.

Looking forward to modern notions of disease prevention, Avicenna proposed adjustments in diet and physical exercise could heal or prevent illnesses.

Avicenna was also vital to the development of cardiology, pulsology, and our understanding of cardiovascular diseases.

Avicenna’s detailed descriptions of capillary flow and arterial and ventricular contractions in the cardiovascular system (the blood and circulatory system) assisted the Arab-Syrian polymath Ibn al Nafis (1213-1288), who became the first physician to describe the blood’s pulmonary circulation, the movement of blood from the heart to the lungs and back again to the heart.

This happened in 1242, centuries before scientist William Harvey arrived at the same conclusion in 17th century England.

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The power of thoughts can cause you either illness or recovery -Ibn Sina ( Avicenna)

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Daniel Jun- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Avicenna "Avi"- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Hanne Brum- King of Scars duology by Leigh Bardugo

Uriel- When The Angels Left The Old Country by Sacha Lamb

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Title: Daydreams and Pretty Lies Author:@aurorawest​​ Fandom: Some Desperate Glory Rating: T Relationships: Avicenna/Magnus Major Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Word Count: 2.9k Summary: Avi wants to keep making gardens for Magnus even though Magnus doesn't need him for that anymore.

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Magnus came closer. Avi looked up at him. He was so fucking tall. Huge. To say Avi had wanted to climb him like a tree for months now was the obvious joke. Realizing you were queer and that you had a thing for men who could crush your head between their thighs was rough on Gaia. So many massive warbreed guys, so few people who didn’t want to beat him up for his sexuality. “I was looking for you, so I guess, yeah.” There was a little smile on Magnus’s face, not shy, not uncertain, exactly, but like he was holding the full force of it in reserve just in case Avi was in a mood. Which. Fuck. Avi didn’t want to be in a mood with Magnus.

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Öfke karaciğeri,

Keder akciğeri,

Üzüntü mideyi,

Stres kalp ve beyni,

Korku böbrekleri yorar!!

Bunlar vücutta artınca ve sürekli ise o organ hastalanır..

İbn-i Sina