Word: avicenna
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...European identity is deeply troubling and potentially dangerous. This is what Muslims must respond to: the tendency of Westerners to ignore the critical role that Muslims played in the development of Western thought. Those who "forget" the decisive contributions of rationalist Muslim thinkers like al-Farabi (10th century), Avicenna (11th century), Averroes (12th century), al-Ghazali (12th century), Ash-Shatibi (13th century) and Ibn Khaldun (14th century) are reconstructing a Europe that is not only an illusion but also self-deceptive about its past...
...European Renaissance. While the Golden Age empire was wealthy, diverse and unified by a common language, regional politics were not always stable. The polymath Ibn Sina (980-1037) found himself out of favor - and sometimes in prison - when his patrons in Persia lost power. Still, the man called Avicenna in the West managed to write The Canon of Medicine, considered one of the most influential tomes in the history of medical science. All this fits the exhibition's theme. Written on the wall (in French, as all the captions are) of the first room is an inscription from the Koran...
...theoretical concepts of Greek medicine, adding to them the idea of scientifically monitoring patients in a special place - a hospital. One page in a Treatise on Anatomy, written in Persia in 1411, details digestive organs, veins and arteries outlined on a human body. And a 1632 copy of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine delineates the basic skeletal system. The curators have put together an imaginative collection of some 200 artifacts, lent by 33 mainly Western museums, including books, maps, quadrants, globes, musical instruments, tiles, paintings and weapons. But many of the Age's great achievements no longer exist...
...Istanbul until he was 16. He went to Phillips Academy and soon began picking up degrees - from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia (M.A.) in English, from the University of Madrid (D. en L. ) in Medieval Spanish and Arabic, from Harvard (Ph.D.) for a thesis on the Arabian philosopher Avicenna. In 1940 he moved to the University of Denver as an assistant professor. This changed everything...
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