Question: What is something that the necessary does not have?
Answer: a definition

Question: What is the Arabic for situation?
Answer: wad

Question: What is one thing that the Necessary is detached from?
Answer: time

Question: What religion was Avicenna?
Answer: Muslim

Question: What did Avicenna want to reconcile with Islamic theology?
Answer: rational philosophy

Question: What did Avicenna hope to do through his work?
Answer: prove the existence of God

Question: Up until what century was Avicenna's work highly influential?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Who did Avicenna view as inspired philosophers?
Answer: the prophets

Question: What did Avicenna consider to be the only way to distinguish real philosophy from illusion?
Answer: philosophy

Question: What did Avicenna fear about stating his theories on philosophy more clearly?
Answer: the political implications of such a theory

Question: What did Avicenna not consider when explaining his theories on philosophy?
Answer: epistemological matters

Question: Which interpretation of Avicenna's work was more taught in Islamic schools?
Answer: al-Razi

Question: Interpretations of Avicenna's work split into how many different schools?
Answer: three

Question: Who used only parts of Avicenna's works to support their own great spiritual insights?
Answer: al-Ghazali

Question: Who used Avicenna's work to help understand future political events?
Answer: al-Tusi

Question: What are Islamic schools also known as?
Answer: madrasahs

Question: Where was Avicenna once imprisoned?
Answer: the castle of Fardajan

Question: What did Avicenna write while he was imprisoned?
Answer: "Floating Man"

Question: What was the soul according to Avicenna?
Answer: a substance

Question: How is the soul perceived according to Avicenna's work "Floating Man"?
Answer: intellectually

Question: How did Avicenna want man to think of themselves as?
Answer: suspended in the air, isolated from all sensations

Question: Where did reason interact with sensation according to Avicenna?
Answer: the brain

Question: What is the universal agent?
Answer: Intellect

Question: In Avicenna's work "Floating Man", what is the core of a human being?
Answer: the knowledge that "I am"

Question: What is the body's perfection?
Answer: the soul

Question: In Avicenna's "Floating Man", what could the essence of a person not be?
Answer: the body

Question: What philosopher did Avicenna discuss in his The Book of Healing text?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: What work of Aristotle's does Avicenna focus on?
Answer: Posterior Analytics

Question: What method did Avicenna criticize as not leading to absolute certainty?
Answer: Aristotelian induction

Question: What was a subject that Avicenna studied, but did not develop a theory on?
Answer: temporal logic

Question: Who expanded on Avicenna's work in temporal logic?
Answer: Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī

Question: What became the dominant system of Islamic logic?
Answer: Avicennian logic

Question: What European logician was greatly influenced by Avicenna?
Answer: Albertus Magnus

Question: Whose law of noncontradiction did Avicenna endorse?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: What is Avicenna's Book of Healing referred to in Arabic?
Answer: Kitab al-shifa

Question: What subject is seen throughout Avicenna's Book of Healing?
Answer: classical psychology

Question: In an argument by Avicenna, the soul is without what?
Answer: quantitative extension

Question: Whose argument is similar to Avicenna's that the soul is without quantitative extension?
Answer: Descartes

Question: What is the Latin for Avicenna's psychology parts in his Book of Healing?
Answer: De Anima

Question: What does Avicenna ground his psychology on?
Answer: physiology

Question: According to Avicenna, the body and soul must be what in order to ensure the soul's individuation?
Answer: strong enough

Question: How does Avicenna  explain the connection between body and soul?
Answer: his understanding of perception

Question: How does man first perceive features of an object?
Answer: external senses

Question: The body and soul's interaction takes place where?
Answer: the physical body

Question: What Muslim astronomer did Avicenna influence?
Answer: Al-Biruni

Question: What subject did Avicenna consider to be a separate discipline from astrology?
Answer: mathematical astronomy

Question: What philosopher thought the stars received their light from the sun?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: What planet did Aristotle think was a spot on the sun?
Answer: Venus

Question: Where did Avicenna think Venus was in relation to the sun?
Answer: below the Sun

Question: What work by Avicenna is thought to be a fake?
Answer: Liber Aboali Abincine de Anima in arte Alchemiae

Question: What is another work of Avicenna that is said to not be his creation?
Answer: the Declaratio

Question: What is definitely seen as being written by Avicenna?
Answer: The Book of Minerals

Question: What is the kitab al-Shifa?
Answer: Book of the Remedy

Question: What did Ibn Sina classify into stones?
Answer: minerals

Question: Who said that Ibn Sina was one of the greatest thinkers?
Answer: George Sarton

Question: What did George Sarton write?
Answer: The History of Science

Question: Ibn Sina was described as the most famous scientist in what religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: Who is another leading Islamic figure in medicine?
Answer: Abulcasis

Question: During what centuries was Ibn Sina ranked among such medical greats as Hippocrates?
Answer: early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries

Question: In what modern country is Avicenna considered an icon?
Answer: Iran

Question: Where is a monument located that honors Avicenna?
Answer: the Bukhara museum

Question: In what European school does Avicenna's portrait hang in their hall of medicine?
Answer: the University of Paris

Question: Where is the Avicenna Mausoleum and Museum located?
Answer: Hamadan

Question: What plant genus is named after Avicenna?
Answer: Avicennia

Question: What superpower in 1980 created a stamp in honor of Avicenna?
Answer: the Soviet Union

Question: What was Avicenna's birthplace?
Answer: Bukhara

Question: A medical staff training college named in his honor is how many miles away from his birthplace?
Answer: 16

Question: In 1980, how many years had it been since Avicenna's birth?
Answer: thousand

Question: Besides stamps, what did the Soviet Union also create in Avicenna's honor?
Answer: a bust

Question: When was it announced that Avicenna would have medical directories named after him?
Answer: March 2008

Question: What does the Avicenna Directories contain?
Answer: where doctors, public health practitioners, pharmacists and others, are educated

Question: What was Avicenna known for?
Answer: his synthesis of knowledge from both east and west

Question: What is Avicenna's name needed for?
Answer: worldwide partnership

Question: What movie was made about Avicenna's younger years?
Answer: Youth of Genius

Question: What is a rare discipline that Avicenna worked on?
Answer: alchemy

Question: On what subject is one of Avicenna's treatise based on?
Answer: Physics

Question: What doctrine is some of Avicenna's works based around?
Answer: Aristotelian doctrine

Question: According to some, what was Ibn Sina trying to do regarding his works?
Answer: "re-Aristotelianise" Muslim philosophy

Question: Who published Avicenna's poem on logic?
Answer: Schmoelders

Question: What is the name of Avicenna's larger encyclopedic treatise? 
Answer: Al-Shifa'

Question: Where is Avicenna's Al-Shifa manuscript located?
Answer: the Bodleian Library

Question: What is the shorter form of Al-Shifa called?
Answer: the An-najat

Question: What two subjects of Avicenna's have been reprinted extensively?
Answer: Logic and Metaphysics

Question: What are logograms used in the writing of Chinese?
Answer: Chinese characters

Question: What are Chinese characters called in standard Chinese?
Answer: Hanzi