About the title
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, or Avicenna (Afshona, near Bukhara, August 16, 980 – Hamadan, June 18, 1037), was a medieval scholar, philosopher, and physician, a representative of Eastern Aristotelianism. He served as court physician to the Samanid emirs and Daylamite sultans, and for a time was vizier in Hamadan. In total, he wrote more than 450 works in 29 fields of science, of which only 274 have survived to this day. A film dedicated to the philosopher, physician, scholar of the East, and poet who lived in Bukhara in the 10th century and is known in Europe by the name Avicenna.