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020			_a978-81-307-1383-0
082			_223 _a181.5 _bAFN
100			_aAfnan Soheil M.
245			_aAvicenna his life and works / _cSoheil M. Afnan.
250			_a1st ed. _b2011.
260			_aNew Delhi. _bCosmo Publications; _c2011.
300			_a294 p . ; _bhardbound _c23x25cm
505			_aIntoduction 1. Persia in the tenth century 2. Life and works of Avicenna 3. Problems of logic 4. Problems of metaphysics 5. Problems of psychology 6. Problems of religion 7. Medicine and the natural sciences 8. Avicenna and the East 9. Avicenna and the west 10. Conclusion A selected bibliography
520			_aThis book is an attempt to present to the general reader the life and works of Avicenna, or lbn Sina, who is beyond doubt the most provocative figure in the history of thought in the East. It is not a defence of him and his system, nor a critique of his philosophy. During his lifetime he was deliberately scornful of defenders and critics alike; he could not think better of them now that a thousand years have gone by. With his position amply justified, and after that extended period when his name hung on the lips of physicians and philosophers from the borders of china to the cloisters of medieval Paris and Oxford, it seems best to let him speak for himself.
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