Editing Avicenna (section)

==== In Isfahan ====
[[File:MuhammadibnRustamDushmanziyarCoin.jpg|thumb|left|Coin of [[Ala al-Dawla Muhammad]] ({{reign|1008|1041}}), the [[Kakuyids|Kakuyid]] ruler of [[Isfahan]]]]
Avicenna was subsequently released, and went to Isfahan, where he was well received by Ala al-Dawla. In the words of Juzjani, the Kakuyid ruler gave Avicenna "the respect and esteem which someone like him deserved".{{sfn|Gutas|1987|pp=67–70}} Adamson also says that Avicenna's service under Ala al-Dawla "proved to be the most stable period of his life".{{sfn|Adamson|2013|p=25}} Avicenna served as the advisor, if not vizier of Ala al-Dawla, accompanying him in many of his military expeditions and travels.{{sfn|Gutas|1987|pp=67–70}}{{sfn|Adamson|2013|p=25}} Avicenna dedicated two Persian works to him, a philosophical treatise named ''[[Daneshnameh-ye Alai|Danish-nama-yi Ala'i]]'' ("Book of Science for Ala"), and a medical treatise about the pulse.{{sfn|Lazard|1975|p=630}}
[[File:Мавзолей Авиценны 1.JPG|thumb|The [[Avicenna Mausoleum|Mausoleum of Avicenna]], [[Hamadan]], Iran]]
During the brief occupation of Isfahan by the [[Ghaznavids]] in January 1030, Avicenna and Ala al-Dawla relocated to the southwestern Iranian region of [[Khuzestan Province|Khuzistan]], where they stayed until the death of the Ghaznavid ruler [[Mahmud of Ghazni|Mahmud]] ({{reign|998|1030}}), which occurred two months later. It was seemingly when Avicenna returned to Isfahan that he started writing his ''Pointers and Reminders''.{{sfn|Gutas|2014|p=133}} In 1037, while Avicenna was accompanying Ala al-Dawla to a battle near Isfahan, he contracted a severe colic, having suffered from colic throughout his life. He died shortly afterwards in Hamadan, where he was buried.{{sfn|Adamson|2013|p=26}}
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