Place

Isfahan

Persia · Modern Iran

A Persian city where Ibn Sina spent his most productive years. Later became the Safavid capital and one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Thinkers Connected to Isfahan

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.

1048 CE – 1131 CE

Mathematician by day, poet of doubt by night. He solved cubic equations and asked what any of it was for.