Place

Bukhara

Transoxiana · Modern Uzbekistan

A major city on the Silk Road in Central Asia. Birthplace of Ibn Sina. Under the Samanid dynasty it was a center of Persian culture and learning.

Thinkers Connected to Bukhara

Ibn Sina

980 CE – 1037 CE

A child prodigy who mastered medicine at sixteen and philosophy by eighteen. He wandered Persia, writing the books that shaped medieval thought.

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