When and where was Avicenna born?
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Avicenna
The title page of the 1556 edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb). This edition (sometimes called the 1556 Basel edition) was translated by medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona.
Avicenna was born in 980 near Bukhara, a region that was part of the Islamic world and is located in present-day Uzbekistan.1
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