Ibn Sina: The Thinker Who Organized Knowledge
100 Lives That Shaped the World · Episode 4
- Historical Biographies
- 43 min
- Ages 12–99
- 10 chapters
About this audiobook
A biography of the Persian physician and philosopher known in Latin as Avicenna, following his court career, restless travels, major works, and long intellectual afterlife.
Why it's worth a listen
It places the Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing inside a multilingual culture of scholarship, while separating medieval achievement from modern medical claims.
A question to keep
How did Ibn Sina turn inherited learning and relentless inquiry into systems of thought that traveled across languages and centuries?
Chapters
- Writing While the Court Moved
- Bukhara and a World of Books
- The Autobiography of a Prodigy
- Physician at a Falling Court
- A Scholar Between Rulers
- The Canon's Architecture
- Healing the Mind with Philosophy
- Vizier, Prisoner, Writer
- From Arabic into Latin
- A System, Not a Miracle Cure