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The Book of Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitab Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sanatio) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the Persian polymath Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia. Despite its English title, it is not in fact mainly concerned with medicine: the Latin title Sanatio is a mistranslation of Shifa, which, even though it means 'healing', has the secondary meaning of "satiation", "completion", or "wholeness", the meaning most-likely intended by Ibn Sīnā. (Note that, in English, the words, "whole" and "healthy" are semantically related.)

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  • The Book of Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitab Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sanatio) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the Persian polymath Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia. Despite its English title, it is not in fact mainly concerned with medicine: the Latin title Sanatio is a mistranslation of Shifa, which, even though it means 'healing', has the secondary meaning of "satiation", "completion", or "wholeness", the meaning most-likely intended by Ibn Sīnā. (Note that, in English, the words, "whole" and "healthy" are semantically related.)
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  • The Book of Healing (Arabic: کتاب الشفاء Kitab Al-Shifaʾ, Latin: Sanatio) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the Persian polymath Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia. Despite its English title, it is not in fact mainly concerned with medicine: the Latin title Sanatio is a mistranslation of Shifa, which, even though it means 'healing', has the secondary meaning of "satiation", "completion", or "wholeness", the meaning most-likely intended by Ibn Sīnā. (Note that, in English, the words, "whole" and "healthy" are semantically related.) This book is Ibn Sina’s major work on science and philosophy. He probably began to compose the al-Shifa in 1014, completed it around 1020, and published it in 1027. The book covers nine volumes on Avicennian logic; eight on the natural sciences (including Earth science, Islamic geography and Islamic physics); four on the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music; and the remaining volumes on Avicennian philosophy, metaphysics and psychology. It is further subdivided into categories such as Islamic ethics and politics. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scientists, and philosophers such as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alfarabi) and Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī.
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