‘The Genius of Their Age’ Review: Central Asia’s Big Thinkers
I never realized quite how idle and inadequate I was until reading S. Frederick Starr’s “The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment.” The 11th-century scholar Ibn Sina—known in the West as Avicenna—was practicing medicine and law in his teens and sought, through hundreds…
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