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This man failed to apply his treatise on The Management of Troops to his only military post, which ended with his troops ransacking his house and forcing Shams al-Dawla to exile him. This man’s magnum opus superseded a “Royal Book” that Constantine the African introduced to Europe. This man’s mentor Masihi died in a sandstorm while they fled to the Ziyarid emir Qabus in Gorgan in an effort to escape Mahmud of Ghazni, (-5[1])who sent portraits of this man to cities like Reyy, Tus, and Balkh. (-5[1])This author’s (-5[1])work was used in bimaristans and is celebrated by his (*) tower mausoleum in Hamadan. (-5[1])In a rare primary source on libraries of the Islamic Golden Age, this author’s autobiography describes the chests of books he was given access to after curing the Samanid emir of Bukhara, his hometown. (-5[1])For 10 points, what polymath (10[1]-5[1])wrote a Galen-influenced encyclopedia called the Canon (10[1])of Medicine? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[3])

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