Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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Views on wine

Amira K. Bennison, a Cambridge historian, records the following:

Avicenna considered both prayer and wine essential to his intellectual life and he was as likely to quaff a goblet of wine as hurry to the mosque to pray when he had a mental block.