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Mausoleum of Ibn Sina Hamedan The mausoleum of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), hamedan, was built in 1952 above the tomb of one of Iran's greatest philosophers and scholars, known to the West as Avicenna. Born near Bokhara about the year A.D. 980, he lived a full and dangerous life, serving a variety of rival princes as a physician and vazier, dying at the age of 57 in Hamedan. His Canon, the first systematic work of medical science, was taught in European universities until the eighteenth century, and his contribitions to philosophy, logic, mathematics, optics and pharmaceutics make him one of the most prolific and original minds of all times. Modern Hamedan is presumed to be built on the site of Ecbatana, a Median capital, the capture of which in 550 BC by Cyrus the Great marks the foundation of the Persian Empire. The mausoleum of Avicenna is built in the style of the Gunbad-i-Qabus, a famous eleventh century funerary tower in north-east Iran. |
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