Arabian philosopher and physician Avicenna introduced coffee as a beverage about A.D. 1000.
He called the drink bunc; he believed it to be useful as a medicinal tonic.
Not until about the sixteenth century did coffee become accepted as a social beverage in Arabia and Persia.
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