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The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public English entry on Ibn Sina

On 15 September 2016 the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy first published Dimitri Gutas’s Ibn Sina [Avicenna] entry, a completed public-scholarship instrument with later revision. 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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On 15 September 2016 the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy first published Dimitri Gutas’s Ibn Sina [Avicenna] entry, a completed public-scholarship instrument with later revision. The dated carrier is that URL. Avicenna did not write the encyclopedia. A free, citable English vita-and-doctrine page is an access path with source notes.

Context

Encyclopedia articles can flatten. They also stop a reader from depending on an unsourced blog. High confidence on the publication date.

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 2016 SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a recovered diary.

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.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina [Avicenna]Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — AvicennaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified

Causal path

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

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public English entry on Ibn Sina
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public English entry on Ibn Sina. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-sep-ibn-sina-2016

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-sep-ibn-sina-2016

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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