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Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the West) represents the ideal of Classical Muslim intellectual. His Qanun of Medicine would be the primary medical textbook in Europe for 500 years. And though he wrote on a huge range of subjects, it is for philosophy he is best known. Before him, philosophers commented on Aristotle; after him, they commented on Ibn Sina.