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Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina is better known in Europe by the Latinized name Avicenna. He was born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 973 CE. This part of Central Asia at that time was part of the Persian Empire. Avicenna is best known as a physician whose major work, the Canon (al-Qanun fil-Tibb), continued to be taught as a medical textbook in Europe for 600 years and is still used in the Middle East and South Asia under the name of Unani medicine.