Rumi Awards family will present the annual awards under the name of Avicenna Awards to individuals and groups that achieve extra ordinary success in the field of Medicine, Geography, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Psychology & Physics. Avicenna (980 – June 1037) was a polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. Of the 450 works he is know
n to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing – a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine – a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and poetry.
