SEP prints Avicenna’s prophet-legislator as the political peak of the Shifa
The 15 September 2016 Stanford Encyclopedia Ibn Sina entry, with the metaphysics companion, prints the received political-theology: a prophet as lawgiver whose imagination and intellect found a city. In the causal graph this event weakens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
Read the full account
The 15 September 2016 Stanford Encyclopedia Ibn Sina entry, with the metaphysics companion, prints the received political-theology: a prophet as lawgiver whose imagination and intellect found a city. It privileges revealed law over civic argument.
Context
Natural-philosophy publicity in the same opera is a separate access gain. High confidence on the encyclopedia text, medium on later constitutional coefficients.
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
PersonDirect 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.
- FactSEP prints Avicenna’s prophet-legislator as the political peak of the Shifa
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 15 September 2016 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.28 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina’s MetaphysicsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina [Avicenna]Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAvicenna
- contributed toFactSEP prints Avicenna’s prophet-legislator as the political peak of the Shifa
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). SEP prints Avicenna’s prophet-legislator as the political peak of the Shifa. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-prophet-legislator-shifa
https://factrail.ai/facts/av-prophet-legislator-shifa
Accessed 16 October 2026.
By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed
Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.