ABÚ ALÍ AL HUSAYN IBN SINA KNOWN IN THE WEST AS AVICENNA CAME FROM AFSHANA A CENTRAL ASIAN CITY OF THE ISLAMIC ABBASID CALIPHATE WHEN THEY MOVED TO THE CAPITAL BUKHARA ALÍ READ AND MEMORIZED THE QURAN AND STUDIED MUSLIM LITERATURE HE WAS BORN IN THE YEAR 980 CE OR THE YEAR 369 OF THE MUSLIM CALENDAR HIS FATHER WAS GOVERNOR OF THE CITY OF KHARMAYTHAN HE WANTED TO PROVIDE A GOOD EDUCATION FOR BOTH ALI AND HIS BROTHER MAHMUD HE LEARNED ARITHMETIC FROM A MERCHANT WHO WAS AN EXPERT IN THE INDIAN NUMBER SYSTEM SUTT AND STUDIED ISLAMIC LAW WITH ISMAIL AL ZAHID A SCHOLAR FROM THE CITY
BEUR WHEN ALI WAS TEN HIS FATHER CHOSE A PHILOSOPHER TO BE HIS TUTOR THE TEACHER'S NAME WAS AL NATILI MUCH OF OUR KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM GREECE AND THEN THROUGH THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA A GREAT CENTER OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING WE WILL USE ARISTOTLE'S CURRICULUM WHICH CONSISTS OF THE STUDY OF LOGIC MATHEMATICS PHYSICS THE FIRST ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHERS ADOPTED THE TEACHINGS OF ARISTOTLE THEY DETERMINED EVERYTHING AN EDUCATED PERSON OUGHT TO KNOW ASTRONOMY METEOROLOGY ETHICS POLITICS AND ALSO RHETORIC EVERYTHING THAT A PROPER PHILOSOPHER NEEDS TO KNOW SO YOU NOT ONLY MUST READ ABOUT THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS BUT ALSO ABOUT ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHERS SUCH AS AL FARABI OR AL KINDI THE FIRST GREAT MUSLIM THINKER
ONE DAY ALI SAW SOME STRANGERS ARRIVE AT HIS HOME WHO ARE THESE MEN FATHER THEY ARE MY GUESTS ISMAILI MISSIONARIES ISMAILI MISSIONARIES THEY PREACH ISMAILI THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY AND BELIEVE THAT ISMA'IL WAS THE TRUE IMAM AMONG THE GRANDSONS OF CALIPH ALÍ CALIPH ALI HIS FATHER WELCOMED THE VISITORS WITH MUCH FONDNESS AND REVERENCE REMEMBER WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED
