President Mohammad Khatami opened the First International Conference on Avicenna on August 22 at the mausoleum of Avicenna in Hamedan.
Several
Iranian and foreign scholars are attending the three-day conference. Of the 265
articles submitted to the conference, 150 articles have been selected to be
published in a book and 75 are to be presented at the conference.
Medicinal
properties of herbs and other issues in the field of medicine are to be
discussed at the conference.
The
Avicenna Foundation will be officially established during the event and some
3,000 volumes of books about Avicenna published in the English and Persian
languages will be donated to the Hamedan Library.
The
International Conference on Avicenna is being held to commemorate the great
Persian mathematician, philosopher, and physician Avicenna, who wove classical
dicta into the rational and consistent system that dominated European medical
thought from the late 12th to 17th centuries.
He
was also one of the interpreters of Aristotelian principles in his time and
penned about 200 books in different fields such as science, religion, and
philosophy. Avicenna died in 1037 and was buried in Hamedan.
The
anniversary of his birthday on August 22 is Physicians' Day in Iran.
Source:
MEHR News Agency