Avicenna has been played on NTS shows including Radio Jiro, with Fa-Ya-Fa-Ya first played on 20 November 2014.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā(Persian پورسينا Pur-e Sina [ˈpuːre ˈsiːnɑː] "son of Sina"; c. 980, Afshana near Bukhara– 1037, Hamadan, Iran), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine.

His most famous works are "The Book of Healing", a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia,…