This book is an attempt to present to the general reader the life and works of Avicenna, or Ibn Sina, who is beyond doubt the most provocative figure in the history of thought in the East. It is not a Defence of him and his system, nor a critique of his philosophy. During his lifetime he was deliberately scornful of defenders and critics alike he could not think better of them now that a thousand years have gone by. With his position amply justified, and after ...
