Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1989, with a picture the statue of Abu Ali Ibn Sinnah (Avicenna) in the city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Ibn Sina often known as Abu Ali Sina, and often known in the West as Avicenna (980-1037), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Sajjad H. Rizvi has called Avicenna “arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era”. He was a Muslim Peripatetic philosopher influenced by Greek Aristotelian philosophy. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.