num_pages: 112
description: Avicenna was considered a child prodigy by the age of ten, and became the most famous physician, philosopher, activist, mathematician, and astronomer of his time. He wrote more than 1 books, the most famous of which was Canon, which outlines the entire known medical knowledge of the period in five volumes.
language: English
title: Avicenna Ibn Sina: Muslim Physician and Philosopher of the Eleventh Century
titlecomplete: Avicenna Ibn Sina: Muslim Physician and Philosopher of the Eleventh Century (Great Muslim Philosophers and Scientists of the Middle Ages)
genres: Biography, History, Philosophy, Islam, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Rosen Central