"The
international festival of Avicennian philosophy" is held in 5 sections and
its aim is to introduce Avicennian philosophy, and the city of Hamedan as the
birthplace of Iranian civilization. Avisenna is undoubtedly one of the greatest
Iranian and Islamic philosophers and has had an influential effect on other
philosophers such as Sohrevardi and Mulla Sadra.
"The international festival of Avicennian philosophy"
is hosted by Hamedan's governor's office in 3 parts: Awards, Meetings, and
sideline programs. Five prizes, each worth 100 thousand dollars are to be given
in the awards section. The awards are: "Avicennian research award",
"Avicennian philosophy award", "Avicennian medical award",
"Avicennian wisdom award" and "Hegmataneh award".
Abu
Ali Sina Balkhi or Ibn Sina, commonly known in English by his Latinized name
Avicenna was born in c. 980 near Bukhara, contemporary Uzbekistan, and died in
1037 in Hamedan in modern Iran. He was a Persian polymath and the foremost
physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist,
geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet,
psychologist, scientist, and teacher.
Avicenna
wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240
have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on
philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are
The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The
Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many medieval
universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities
of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650.
Avicenna
developed a medical system that combined his own personal experience with that
of Islamic medicine, the medical system of the Greek physician Galen,
Aristotelian metaphysics (Avicenna was one of the main interpreters of
Aristotle), and ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. He was also
the founder of Avicennian logic and the philosophical school of Avicennism,
which were influential among both Muslim and Scholastic thinkers.
Avicenna
is regarded as a father of modern medicine, and clinical pharmacology
particularly for his introduction of systematic experimentation and
quantification into the study of physiology, his discovery of the contagious
nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the
spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of experimental medicine,
evidence-based medicine, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials,
efficacy tests, clinical pharmacology, neuropsychiatry, risk factor analysis,
the idea of the syndrome, and the importance of dietetics and the influence of
climate and environment on health.
Avicenna
is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics,
and regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy for his invention of steam
distillation and extraction of essential oils. He also developed the concept of
uniformitarianism and law of superposition in geology.
Source:
IBNA News Agency