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

Date: 2016

## The fact

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

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

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

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-sina/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Avicenna

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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