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Gohlman’s 1974 Life of Ibn Sina prints the court-physician vita of service to princes

William E. Gohlman’s The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY, 1974) prints the Arabic autobiography-and-disciple continuation in English. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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William E. Gohlman’s The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY, 1974) prints the Arabic autobiography-and-disciple continuation in English. Court medicine can be skilled and still bind care to a patron’s household.

Context

Patronage also funded the Canon. Split library-access onto improving rows.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named physician-philosopher as heading of later editions, faculties, and commemorations. Printers, faculties, and agencies publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Encyclopaedia Iranica — Avicenna (index)Encyclopaedia Iranica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Gohlman, The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY)SUNY Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

It records a career of royal libraries, Buyid and Kakuyid patronage, and office under princes, not a public clinic charter.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactGohlman’s 1974 Life of Ibn Sina prints the court-physician vita of service to princes
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Gohlman’s 1974 Life of Ibn Sina prints the court-physician vita of service to princes. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-court-physician-gohlman-1974

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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