After the recovery of the Sultan, Ibn Sina was rewarded and was given access to the royal library, a treasure trove for Ibn Sina who read its rare manuscripts and unique books thus adding more to his knowledge. When the Sultan of Bukhara, Nuh Ibn Mansour of the Samanid dynasty, became seriously ill, Ibn Sina was summoned to treat him. 2ДЄ portrait of Al Hussain Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina He was quoted as stating that: вЂњMedicine is no hard and thorny science like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress I became an excellent physician and began to treat patients using approved remediesвЂќ. By the age of eighteen, he was a well established physician and his reputation became well known in his country and beyond. At the age of thirteen, he started studying the medical sciences. In the following 6 years, he devoted his time for studying Islamic law and jurisprudence, philosophy, logic and natural sciences.

At the age of ten, he finished studying and memorizing the Koran by heart and was proficient in Arabic language and its literature classics. Abdullah realized that his son was a prodigy child and was keen on getting the best tutors for his genius son. His mother was a Tadjik woman named Sitara. His father, Abdullah, was from the city of Balkh and worked as a local governor for a village near Bukhara. Ibn Sina was born in 980 AD in the village of Afshanah near the city of Bukhara in Central Asia, the capital of the Samani kingdom at that time, in the present country of Uzbekistan. As a thinker, he represented the culmination of Islamic renaissance, and was described as having the mind of Goethe and the genius of Leonardo da Vinci.

The Europeans called him the вЂњPrince of PhysiciansвЂќ. He was named by his students and followers as вЂњAl Shaikh Al RaвЂ™eesвЂќ or the master wise man. Abu Ali Al-Hussein Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was one of the most eminent Muslim physicians and philosophers of his days whose influence on Islamic and European medicine persisted for centuries.

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