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The U.S. National Library of Medicine publishes a public Canon page in Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts

In 1994 NLM’s History of Medicine exhibition Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts placed a public English page on the Canon, including MS A 53 as a complete Arabic witness. A national library page is a stable teaching URL. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1994 NLM’s History of Medicine exhibition Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts placed a public English page on the Canon, including MS A 53 as a complete Arabic witness. Avicenna did not write HTML. A national library page is a stable teaching URL.

National Library of Medicine publishes a public Canon page in Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (1994-01-01).

Context

Exhibition prose can simplify. The page still warns that the encyclopedia is historical.

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

An NLM Canon page is a public-history access path, not a medical licence.

Who was responsible

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

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · 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

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  1. 1.NLM — Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (exhibition home)U.S. National Library of Medicine · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.NLM — Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: The Canon of AvicennaU.S. National Library of Medicine · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactThe U.S. National Library of Medicine publishes a public Canon page in Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The U.S. National Library of Medicine publishes a public Canon page in Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-nlm-islamic-medical-1994

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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