Avicenna is a Latin corruption of the Arabic patronym Ibn Sīnā (ابن سینا),14 meaning "Son of Sina", a rare Persian masculine given name of uncertain etymology.citation needed However, Avicenna was not the son,15 but the great-great-grandson of a man named Sina. His full name was Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā (أبو علی الحسین بن عبد الله بن الحسن بن علی بن سینا). Circumstances Ibn Sina created an extensive corpus of works during what is commonly known as th ...