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Avicenna's Period of Scholarly Activity

Type Event Region Asia Time 1010–1021

Around 1010 CE, the Persian polymath Avicenna served as physician and vizier at the Buyid court, moving between Hamadan and Ray while completing or a…

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  1. 1010–1015Hamadan · HamadanAfter curing Buyid amir Shams al-Dawla's ailments, Avicenna was appointed vizier, balancing state affairs and medical practice at the politically turbulent Buyid court while continuing to write and teach.
  2. 1010–1020Ray · RayDuring his time in Ray and Hamadan, Avicenna completed the five-volume medical encyclopedia Canon of Medicine and began systematically writing the great work of philosophy and natural science, The Book of Healing; according to his disciple Juzjani, he dictated as many as fifty pages a day.

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