French School's Portrait of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) Reading located at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France. The Portrait of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) Reading was created around the 16th century.

Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.