Marked Bukhara

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Ibn Sina

Born near Bukhara, Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, was a doctor and philosopher. His Canon of Medicine was taught in Europe and the Islamic world for six hundred years.

Place
Bukhara · Isfahan · HamadanThe Middle East, Asia
Laid out as
A lifeOne person’s life, from birth to death, and what they left behind.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IA boy in Bukhara
  2. IIA doctor at seventeen
  3. IIIThe Canon of Medicine
  4. IVThe Book of Healing
  5. VA life on the move

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Ibn Sina
  • Al-Biruni
  • Nuh II of the Samanids

Objects

  • Manuscripts of the Canon
  • The Avicenna mausoleum, Hamadan

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

AD 980 to 1037. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?