#Avicenna

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1/Following up on an interesting point raised by Jonathan AC Brown about Avicenna & wine-drinking, I'd like to offer a few cursory remarks. One: Avicenna drank wine. His penchant for

THREAD: Ibn Sina - From the necessary existence to God. [Peter Adamson] Ibn Sina already established the existence of the necessary being in his argument from contingency, which you can

Elaine van Dalen

It is great that awesome scholars such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) get public attention. But it is a shame that it often happens in such a nonfactual and nonsensical fashion.

Persian Rose, stay at home! 🇺🇸🇮🇷🏳️

Burning of the libraries of #Ctseiphon, Rayy, #Avicenna, Ghazna, #Nishapur or #Alamut in #Persia were some of hundreds of book-burning incidents! #Iran https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidentsHere’s a list: https://en.m.wikipedi

1/+Did you know that d Persian scholar of medicine, Ibn Sina (980-1037) suspected that some diseases were spread by microorganisms? To prevent human-to-human contamination, he came up with d method

Thomas Aquinas commenting on Ibn Sina's treatise on Evil Eye: Avicenna attributes the phenomenon of bewitchment (fascinationis) to the fact that matter innately obeys non-material beings rather than opposing natural

There was a time Islamic intellectual culture had some of the greatest critical thinkers, philosophers, inventors known to man. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā 854 CE – 925 CE. Famed

Elaine van Dalen

This idea is going round on the internet, but it is not true. Ibn Sina upheld the possibility of disease transmission for certain diseases, but he did not introduce the

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

The Afghan Persian word for hospital is "Shifa Khane" (شیفا خانه): "House of Health".The Iranian Persian word for hospital is "Bimaristan" (بیمارستان): "Place of Sickness".I think the Afghan version is

THREADOn al-Bīrūnī and his book "India" (al-Hind) Al-Bīrūnī was an astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher who died in the middle of the 11th century CE. Look, here he is on a

I was today years old when I learned 'quarantine' was invented by Muslim scientist Ibn Sina in the 11th century.A thread. "The first arguments for the use of quarantine to

Have you ever heard: "A muslim scientist discovered gravity"? or maybe "The first psychiatric hospitals were built in Iraq"? then you've felt the aftershock of when from 2005-2012 "Jagged 85"

'ISLAM AND THE WEST'A part of Speech by The Prince Charles at Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 1993 :"If there is much misunderstanding in the West about the nature of #Islam, there

The history of astrology and why it is haram in Islam, a thread:Astrology - the study of the movements and positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars in the

A thread on #IbnArabi in #SouthAsia people consider the main conduit to be the #Chishti Sufis and their ethical principle of #sulh_e_kull which is assumed to be an expression of

The indigenous healing tradition of Afghanistan is called Yunani, from the word for “Greece.” A quick thread on this fascinating natural healing practice. Yunani is a fusion tradition found in