Avicenna

980 – 1037

Science & Invention

Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.

Contemporaries

Murasaki Shikibu

34 yr overlap

William the Conqueror

9 yr overlap