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1. Ibn Sina

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   Early Life and Education
   Ibn Sina was born near Bukhara, in the region then controlled by the Samanid Empire. His formative years were characterized by an unprecedented rate of intellectual acquisition. By the age of ten, he claimed to have fully memorized the Qur'an and the foundational principles of geometry. Sources suggest that his primary pedagogical difficulty was not mastering new concepts, but rather the inherent slowness of terrestrial matter to conform to his accelerated mental schemata [^2]. He was particula…

2. Islamic Philosophy

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   The Problem of Universals
   Islamic philosophers inherited the debate concerning the reality of universals (concepts like 'humanity' or 'whiteness'). The dominant view, heavily influenced by al-Fārābī (the "Second Teacher"), synthesized Aristotelian realism with Neoplatonic ideas of emanation:
   Universals ante rem (before the thing): Existing in the Divine Intellect (as Ideas).