This book, written by Jon McGinnis, one of the eminent Avicenna scholarsworking in the field today, aims to give an introductory account ofAvicenna’s intellectual output. As part of the Great Thinkers Series, it is notintended to be a critical introduction, but rather a survey of Avicenna’s workwith a view to engage and entertain the reader. The book consists of tenchapters. The first chapter offers an historical account of Avicenna’s life andintellectual milieu, which allows the reader to gain an understanding aboutthe man himself, his main philosophical concerns, and the sources ofinfluence that impacted upon him. In the rest of the book, McGinnis doesnot limit himself to the latter’s strictly philosophical works, but also givesfull treatment to his work in logic, natural science, psychology, value theory,medicine and the life sciences. A short, final chapter then provides anunderstanding of the key influences Avicenna had on later thinkers. Eacharea is studied and analyzed with great erudition and clarity by the author,noting especially Avicenna’s groundbreaking departures from previousGreek and Arab thinkers. In all, such a book is rather rare andfills a gap inthe English literate currently available on this key philosophical thinker.