Medieval · 980–1037
Who influenced Avicenna?
Influences and legacy
Persian polymath whose synthesis of Aristotle and Neoplatonism ruled both Islamic and Latin philosophy.
Avicenna was influenced by Aristotle and Al-Farabi, and went on to influence Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, Ibn Arabi, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and 3 others. That is 11 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Avicenna?
Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was a leading philosopher and physician of the Islamic Golden Age who served at the courts of several Iranian rulers. His Canon of Medicine became a standard text at many medieval European universities and was still in use in 1650; his Book of Healing is an encyclopedia of philosophy and science.
He also wrote on astronomy, alchemy, geology, psychology, theology, logic, mathematics and physics, as well as poetry, mostly in Arabic but partly in Persian. Of about 450 works attributed to him, around 240 survive. His philosophy belongs to the Aristotelian Peripatetic school, of which he is counted among the greatest champions in the Muslim world.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Avicenna?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
Who did Avicenna influence?
9 thinkers on this map draw directly on Avicenna.
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Avempace c. 1085–1138
- Ibn Tufail c. 1105–1185
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Maimonides 1138–1204
- Suhrawardi 1154–1191
- Ibn Arabi 1165–1240
- Albertus Magnus c. 1200–1280
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
The line of teachers behind Avicenna
The longest documented line of influence ending at Avicenna runs 8 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Avicenna
Indirect influences
The second generation
- Through Averroes: Siger of Brabant, Gersonides
- Through Al-Ghazali: René Descartes
- Through Maimonides: Baruch Spinoza
- Through Albertus Magnus: Dietrich von Freiberg
- Through Thomas Aquinas: Duns Scotus
Avicenna by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 9 — #5 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 17
- Thinkers downstream
- 151
- Wikipedia languages
- 160 — #3 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Questions about Avicenna
- Who influenced Avicenna?
- Aristotle and Al-Farabi.
- Who did Avicenna influence?
- Al-Ghazali, Avempace, Ibn Tufail, Averroes, Maimonides, Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.
- When did Avicenna live?
- 980–1037. The map files Avicenna under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Avicenna card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Avicenna in 160 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More medieval philosophers
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111
- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
- Hypatia c. 355–415
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179