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AVICENNA
(42,725 words)
Latin form of the name of the outstanding philosopher and physician of the medieval period, Abū ʿAlī Ḥosayn Ebn Sīnā (d. 1037). A version of this article is available in printVolume III, Fascicle 1, pp. 66-110
AVICENNA, Latin form of the name of the outstanding philosopher and physician of the medieval period, Abū ʿAlī Ḥosayn Ebn Sīnā (b. Bukhara 370/980[?], d. Hamadān 428/1037).AVICENNA i. Introductory noteThe generally accepted view that the Islamic philosophic tradition established by Fārābī (d. 339/950) came to an end with Ebn Rošd (Averroes, fl. 520-95/1…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online
Date:
2022-02-17
Bayt al-Ḥikma
(1,804 words)
Bayt al-Ḥikma (“the House of Wisdom”) was the palace library of the early ʿAbbāsid caliphs, mentioned in the sources only in connection with al-Rashīd (r. 170–193/786–809) and al-Maʾmūn (r. 196–218/812–833). The idea, developed in twentieth-century scholarship, that the Bayt al-Ḥikma was a bureau for the large-scale translation of Greek books into Arabic, operating along the lines of a modern research institute or even a university, is entirely incorrect. While we have little information about th…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19