Ibn Sina was born in AH 370/AD 980 near Bukhara in Central
Asia, where his father governed a village in one of the royal estates. At
thirteen, Ibn Sina began a study of medicine that resulted in ‘distinguished
physicians . . . reading the science of medicine under him’. His medical
expertise brought him to the attention of the Sultan of Bukhara, Nuh ibn
Mansur, whom he treated successfully; as a result he was given permission to
use the sultan’s library and its rare manuscripts, allowing him
to continue his research into modes of knowledge.
When the sultan died, the heir to the throne, ‘Ali ibn Shams
al-Dawla, asked Ibn Sina to continue al vizier, but the philosopher was
negotiating to join the forces of another son of the late king, Ala al-Dawla,
and so went into hiding. During this time he composed his major
philosophical research paper, Kitab
al-shifa’ (Book of Healing), a comprehensive account of learning that ranges
from logic and mathematics to metaphysics and the afterlife. While he was
writing the section on logic, Ibn Sina was arrested and imprisoned, but he
escaped to Isfahan, disguised as a Sufi, and joined Ala al-Dawla. While in the
service of the latter, he completed al-Shifa’ and produced the Kitab al-najat
(Book of Salvation), an abridgment of al-Shifa’. He also produced at least two
major works on logic: one, al-Mantiq, translated as The Propositional Logic of
Ibn Sina, was a commentary on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics and forms part of
al-Shifa’; the other, al-Isharat wa-‘I-tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions),
seems to be written in the ‘indicative mode’, where the reader must participate
by working out the steps leading from the stated premises to proposed
conclusions. He also produced a research paper on definitions and a summary of
the theoretical sciences, together with a number of psychological, religious
and other works; the latter include works on astronomy, medicine, philology and
zoology, as well as poems and an allegorical work, Hayy ibn Yaqzan (The Living
Son of the Vigilant). His biographer also mentions numerous short works on
logic and metaphysics, and a book on ‘Fair Judgment’ that was lost when his
prince’s fortunes suffered a turn. Ibn Sina’s philosophical and medical work
and his political involvement continued until his death.
1. Physicians in Paragraph two most
probably means--------------
2. The one that Ibn
Sina treated was --------------------------
a. His father b. Ala Al-Dawla c. Ali Ibn Shams Al-Dawla d. Nuh ibn
Mansour
3. The underlined pronoun its in
paragraph 1 refers to-----------------
a. Ibn Sina b.
Sultan of Bukhara c.
Sultan’s library d. Manuscripts
4. We can infer
from the passage that Ali Inn Shams Al-Dawla and Ala Al-Dawla were:
a. Brothers b.
Cousins c. kings d. not relatives
5. One of these was
not covered in the Ibn Sina book called “Book of Healing”:
a.
Medicine
b.
Mathematics
c.
Religion
d.
Logic
6. The main idea of
the passage is:
a. Ibn Sina was a
great scientist of medicine, philosophy and religion
b. The Sultan of
Bukhara was successfully treated by Ibn Sina
c. Ibn Sina was a
Moslem, but not an Arab
d. Ibn Sina the
philosopher
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