Known in the Islamic world as the 'Second Teacher' after Aristotle. His works on logic, politics and music shaped the thought of Ibn Sino and, through Latin translations, medieval Europe.
Key achievements
Wrote The Virtuous City, a vision of a state governed by wisdom
Wrote the Great Book of Music, the most important medieval work on music theory in Arabic
Classified the sciences in his Enumeration of the Sciences, later translated into Latin
