The work of people like Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes) and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) would eventually spread and influence medicine in England.

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.