In Baghdad, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) writes the Canon of Medicine, a five-volume work encompassing all known medical knowledge of the time. Ottoman Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu is born. A surgeon ...

Al-Razi Studied diseases in children and how the brain worked. Ibn Sina Wrote an encyclopedia looking at lots of areas of medicine. It was used in universities. Al-Zahrawi Wrote a textbook about ...

Jasim Uddin, chief financial officer of Ibn Sina Pharmaceutical ... its domestic demand for pharmaceutical products and exports medicine to more than 151 countries worldwide.

Starr’s other subject, Ibn Sina (known to Westerners as Avicenna), also wrote widely – on mathematics, geology, good governance – but he is chiefly remembered for his work in philosophy and medicine.