On November 4 of this year, an international symposium entitled “Avicenna’s Contribution to the Development of Science, Philosophy and World Civilization” began at the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan on the occasion of the 1045th birth anniversary of the great scientist Abu Ali Avicenna. The work of this symposium continues in various sections.
Qаbiljan Khoshvaktzadeh, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, stated that Avicenna is one of the thinkers whose life and works have been discussed by many researchers in the past and present. Of all Avicenna’s works, 11 are devoted to the field of natural and exact sciences. His most important work is the “Canon of Medicine,” which consists of five volumes and is considered one of his most widely significant works in the past and present. This work has been translated into most European languages. In "The Canon of Medicine", Avicenna described the general theory of medicine, anatomy, physiology, surgery, diagnosis, treatment methods, pharmacology and prevention of various diseases and studied infectious and chronic diseases. It was emphasized that Avicenna's contribution to the growth and development of botany is also very great. He dedicated his work to the book titled "Kitab al-Nabat" . In this book, more than 500 types of medicinal and herbal plants that have been used in ancient and contemporary medicine are introduced, and he predicted that some of them should go under research in the future.
Then, Abdullah Rahmanzadeh, Assistant to the President of Tajikistan for Social Development and Community Relations, and Alireza Haghighian, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Tajikistan, along with other scientists and researchers, evaluated Avicenna's role in the formation of global civilization and the growth and strengthening of medical sciences, philosophy and logic as unique and rare.
It was said that Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known in Western countries as Avicenna, was not only a rationalist philosopher, but also a skilled physician, a thinker knowledgeable in all the social and natural sciences of his time, an encyclopedic scientist, and a universal genius. He introduced numerous innovations in each of the scientific branches he dealt with, and determined the path of growth and evolution of those sciences for centuries to come.