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Gohlman’s Life prints an unfree and dependent household around the court physician

The 1974 Life names servants, a disciple-biographer, and a household that moves with courts. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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The 1974 Life names servants, a disciple-biographer, and a household that moves with courts. It does not abolish bondage in Samanid or Buyid lands. A physician who is himself a servant of princes still sits inside unfree labour.

Context

Hospital and library work by unfree copyists is labour, not a rights charter. Medium confidence on unique coefficients. High that the vita is a court household, not a free clinic cooperative.

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 printed unfree household around a famous physician is a rights-limit, not a manumission statute.

Who was responsible

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

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · 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 Life prints an unfree and dependent household around the court physician
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1974 · verified

    A printed unfree household around a famous physician is a rights-limit, not a manumission statute.

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Gohlman, The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY)SUNY Press · 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 toFactGohlman’s Life prints an unfree and dependent household around the court physician
  3. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Gohlman’s Life prints an unfree and dependent household around the court physician. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-unfree-household-vita

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-unfree-household-vita

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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