Ibn Sina was neither Arab, nor Persian. In his time people didn't associate themselves with a particular ethnic group. He was a Muslim. That's true and that's how it should be.
If you say he was a Persian, he has a non-Persian name. Arabs use ibn and Persians don't. If you look at the time he lived in, it was during the Samanids who were Persian and later Ghaznevids who were Turks. He mostly wrote in Arabic, although was fluent both in Arabic and Persian.
But what's more interesting is that his hometown Afshona near Bukhara is in Uzbekistan. Would that make him a Uzbek?:)
Leave the guy alone, dear Arabs and Iranians. He is a Muslim and that's how we should perceive him.
"If you say he was a Persian, he has a non-Persian name. Arabs use ibn and Persians don't."
Persia, after Islam, was under heavy influence of Muslims/Arabs (as we still are) you're partially right about his name. but you forget the fact that he lived and died in Hamedan City, now in central Iran.
And dear readers, it's really shameful to label someone like this great scholar "terrorist" who has done valuable contributions to the medical science.
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Ibn Sina was neither Arab, nor Persian. In his time people didn't associate themselves with a particular ethnic group. He was a Muslim. That's true and that's how it should be.
If you say he was a Persian, he has a non-Persian name. Arabs use ibn and Persians don't. If you look at the time he lived in, it was during the Samanids who were Persian and later Ghaznevids who were Turks. He mostly wrote in Arabic, although was fluent both in Arabic and Persian.
But what's more interesting is that his hometown Afshona near Bukhara is in Uzbekistan. Would that make him a Uzbek?:)
Leave the guy alone, dear Arabs and Iranians. He is a Muslim and that's how we should perceive him.
"If you say he was a Persian, he has a non-Persian name. Arabs use ibn and Persians don't."
Persia, after Islam, was under heavy influence of Muslims/Arabs (as we still are) you're partially right about his name. but you forget the fact that he lived and died in Hamedan City, now in central Iran.
And dear readers, it's really shameful to label someone like this great scholar "terrorist" who has done valuable contributions to the medical science.
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