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Gohlman’s edition publishes private household names, patrons, and flight routes from the vita

The same 1974 bilingual Life turns a medieval household file into a public English-Arabic book: patrons, enemies, imprisonments, and named dependants. Avicenna did not consent to a 1974 data release. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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The same 1974 bilingual Life turns a medieval household file into a public English-Arabic book: patrons, enemies, imprisonments, and named dependants. Avicenna did not consent to a 1974 data release.

Context

Ancient vitae routinely publish private arrangements.

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.

Why it matters

A vita in a SUNY edition is an open household register.

Who was responsible

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

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · 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.

    1. FactGohlman’s edition publishes private household names, patrons, and flight routes from the vita
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1974 · verified

    A vita in a SUNY edition is an open household register.

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

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactGohlman’s edition publishes private household names, patrons, and flight routes from the vita
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Gohlman’s edition publishes private household names, patrons, and flight routes from the vita. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-gohlman-private-names

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-gohlman-private-names

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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