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To the south of present-day Turkmenistan, near the modern town of Mary, lie the remnants of what was once one of the most important oasis cities on the Silk Road. So significant was it that not only did it become the capital of the Seljuk Empire, but during the 12th and early 13th centuries, it migh

Ibn Sina, known in the West as ‘Avicenna,’ and his contemporary Biruni set out to redefine law, medicine and philosophy in the 11th century.

I never realized quite how idle and inadequate I was until reading S. Frederick Starr’s “The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost…