Did you know that Ibn Sina’s “Canon of Medicine” was used as a standard medical textbook in European universities for 700 years?

Ibn Sina (d.1037 CE) or Avicenna, as he is known in the West, was a physician, natural philosopher, mathematician, and poet, who  wrote a five-volume encyclopedia that brought together the medical knowledge of Aristotle (d.322 BCE) and Galen (d. ca. 216 CE) with the advances in Chinese medicine of his time. More at Aga Khan Museum and The Institute of Ismaili Studies (links accessed  September 2017).