# Ibn Sina

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How the Missoula floods began as scientific heresy: Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism

Season 3 kicks off by flooding the auditory landscape with a deep dive into glacier outburst floods. This episode explores the Missoula Floods, the historical war of ideas between uniformitarianism and catastrophism, and the lonely scientific journey J. Harlen Bretz. Along the way, we examine how …

History of Deodorant

You use it every single day. You probably used it already today.This is the hidden history of deodorant — the product the American Medical Association once called fraudulent and dangerous, and the 1919 magazine ad that made an entire country ashamed of its own body.In this episode, we trace the lon…

Ibn Sina and the Islamic Golden Age of Science: The Prince of Physicians | Middle Eastern History | Extra Simple History

This biographical arc explores the life and works of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), a Persian polymath who excelled in medicine, philosophy, and astronomy. From his precocious youth in Bukhara to his canon of medicine (al-Qanun), we reveal how Islamic scholars preserved and expanded classical knowledge, pavi…

Silk Road Sleep Story 🌙 Drift Through Ancient Asia by Caravan

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Episode 29: Ibn Sina and Materialism

In this episode, our islamogauchist subset discusses Ernst Bloch's gripping work Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left. On Bloch's account, the history of materialism inherits a problem from Aristotle out of which two opposing lineages emerge: a clerical right-wing that weaponizes the afterlife agains…

Ibn Sina: The Physician, Philosopher and Fugitive

Before Europe built its universities, before the Renaissance "rediscovered" science, and before the West even had the vocabulary to describe diseases, there was a young man from the Persian heartlands who was diagnosing rulers, running clinical trials, and building a system of knowledge that would …

Introducing: Persian of Interest

Before Europe built its universities, before the Renaissance "rediscovered" science, and before the West even had the vocabulary to describe diseases, there was a young man from the Persian heartlands who was diagnosing rulers, running clinical trials, and building a system of knowledge that would …

Chandi Thukra Di, Zameen Naap Li: Al-Biruni Ki Asli Kahani | Salim Khan

Who was Al-Biruni, the Muslim polymath who measured the Earth from a mountain and turned down a reward of silver? Author and researcher Salim Khan tells the story of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973-1048), the scholar from Khwarazm (modern Uzbekistan) whose Kitab al-Hind remains a key source on 11th-centu…