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After the Arab Al-Kindi and the Turkish Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina lined up, one of the many Persian scholars in the Islamic Middle Ages in the Aristotelian tradition. Abu Ali Al-Hussein ibn Abdullah ibn Sina was born in 980 near Bukhara, where the Samanid Persian state was ruled. His father was keen early on to educate his son, who was distinguished since childhood and had an unlimited desire to learn. He read Aristotle's metaphysics in Arabic, and eventually memorized it by heart without understanding it until he happened to find in the book market a commentary by Al-Farabi. After reading it, he felt as if a veil had been lifted from his eyes. "Then I was very pleased and the next day I distributed a lot of charity to the poor. Thank God the Almighty." Before reaching the age of eighteen, he became a famous doctor and was summoned to Bukhara when the Samanid ruler, Nuh II ibn Mansur (976–997), was afflicted with an illness that the court doctors could not cure. Ibn Sina's success in treating the disease opened the door for him to enter the ruler's library. There, he saw books that most people did not even know their names, which he himself had never seen before and would never see again afterward. He read everything and felt at the age of eighteen that he had grasped all the knowledge of his time. "At that time, I memorized knowledge more in my memory; but today, knowledge has become more mature in my memory. But knowledge is one. Since then, I have not learned anything new." On the other hand, he also continued reading every new book and flipping through its pages searching for things he still did not know.