Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was born in the year 980 CE in the town of Afshana in Central Asia.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by numerous reputable encyclopedic and academic sources; 'c. 980' is the standard consensus figure, though Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes minor uncertainty in exact year based on autobiographical sources.
Sources
- El médico (2013): Medicina en la Edad Media - SciELO España (scielo.isciii.es)
- https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(20)30076-8/fulltext (mayoclinicproceedings.org)
- https://iep.utm.edu/avicenna-ibn-sina/ (iep.utm.edu)
- https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Avicenna/ (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/ (plato.stanford.edu)
- https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/avicenna-ii/ (iranicaonline.org)