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Avicenna (Ibn Sina; 980-1037) was a scientist, philosopher, physician, and musician who lived in Central Asia and Iran. He continued the traditions of Arab Aristotelianism and, in part, Neoplatonism. He was a court physician to the Samanid emirs and Dailemite sultans, and was a vizier in Hamadan for some time. He wrote more than 450 works in 29 fields of science, of which only 274 have survived. He is the author of The Book of Healing and The Book of Instructions and Directions. His medical work The Canon of Medicine, translated into Latin, was popular in medieval Europe... Historian Natalia Basovskaya tells us.