Abu Ali Ibn Sino. Prominent figures of Uzbekistan

Abu Ali ibn-Sina (Avicenna) was born in 980-^th year in the settlement Afshana near Bukhara in the family of a financial official.

As early as in his childhood ibn-Sina along with his father arrived in Bukhara. He familiarized himself with Koran in his very early days, went the same into the Greek philosophy, geometry and Indian calculation.

Ibn-Sina's scientific interests evolved in the two directions: in medicine and philosophy. By the age of seventeen he became a fully developed scholar and had a big prestige as a physician.

Once he had been invited to the sick Nukh ibn-Mansur, who ruled Bukhara, and cured him. In reward the Ibn-Sina got the permission to use the palace library.

After the overthrow of the Samanids and the capture of Buhkara by the Karakhanids (in 992 and 999 years) ibn-Sina went to Urgench to the palace of a Khorezm Shah where a good deal of prominent scholars was.

At that time in Khorezm there ruled Abui-Abbas Mamun (999-1016 years) who patronized scholars, poets and painters.

Ibn-Sina's philosophy expounded in the "Kitab ash-Shifa" ("The book of healing") is a whole epoch in the history of oriental philosophy. However, it is his classic consolidated work on medicine that has created him a world reputation, "Kitab al-Kanun fit-Tib" (The canon of medical science). The translation of this work into Latin language was made in the end of XV-^th century among the incunabula. In one hundred years, in 1593, its Arabic original published in Rome. Then it used to be published many times up to 17-^th century and became one of the most popular works on medicine in the West. The west medicine was under a direct impact of the Canon.

Of doctoring of ibn-Sina's there were composed legends. One of them runs that after the death he left his apprentice forty ampoules and ordered to do him daily infusions by one ampoule during forty days. When the apprentice infused the 39-^th ampoule, he saw that the cheeks of the teacher's blushed pink, the lips turned crimson, hair and moustache blackened and it looked like he was on the point of opening his eyes any moment. The apprentice so much got agitated in the expectation of the resurrection that he dropped the last fortieth ampoule and it smashed up.