It seems I wanted to make a lot of notes about Avicenna, probably because I keep mixing him up with someone like Averroes or Paracelsus.
Questions
With its distinctive interior, in which city and namesake north-western province can you find the Sheikh Safi al-Din Khanegah and Shrine Ensemble? Persian carpets named for this place can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
ARDABIL
A historical hydraulic system used for irrigation can be found in which island city in Khuzestan province, this being included in list of Iran’s World Heritage Sites?
SHUSHTAR
The first part of its name meaning ‘throne’, which World Heritage listed archaeological site in the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan had a temple housing one of the three ‘Great Fires’ of the Sassanians?
TAKHT-E SOLEYMAN
Avicenna died in which city that also gives its name to an Iranian province? The Medes capital of Ecbatana was situated within its current borders.
HAMADAN / HAMEDAN
Completed in the Iranian city of Hamadan, what is the name of Avicenna’s five-book encyclopedia of medical knowledge in the contemporary Islamic world?
CANON OF MEDICINE
Sometimes called the Later Western Liao, which double-barreled Khitan dynasty that ruled over Kirman in Iran from 1222 to 1306 was for a time a vassal state of the larger Ilkhanate? It is seen as a successor to the Qara Khitai after they were driven west thanks to 13th century Mongol expansion.
QUTLUGH-KHANID
The first and last sultans of the Seljuk Empire both shared what regnal name that was suggestive of a raptor like a goshawk? A mythological bird that is a national symbol of Hungary has a slightly different spelling.
TUGHRIL (The Hungarian bird being the Turul)
Although considered a father of modern medicine, Avicenna wrote a book called “Kitab al-Shifa” that is not about curing disease but improving their soul. By what English title is this philosophical and scientific encyclopedia known?
THE BOOK OF HEALING
Ben Kingsley played famous Persian medical man Avicenna in which 2013 film that was a success in his native Germany for director Philipp Stölzl?
THE PHYSICIAN
Awarded for ethics in science, which world agency hands out the Avicenna prize, its limited list of recipients including Renzong Qiu and Zabta Khan Shinwari?
UNESCO