A Concise History of Science in India c8.s9.5

c8.s9.5

But the pride of place among the Arabic medical writers belongs to Abu ‘Ali Husain b. Abdallāh b. Sīnā (Avicenna) (A.D. 980–1036). His *Qānūn* (*Canon*) was accepted as the most authoritative medical work in Europe for five centuries (twelfth-seventeenth century). And it is accepted as the greatest authority on the *Unani Tibb* in India up to the present day. He composed 99 books, some of which occupied more than 20 volumes. Sixteen of his books deal with medical subject. The most important of them is the *Canon* on medicine.