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The Physician

الطبيب

Based on Noah Gordon's novel: an English youth travels to 11th-century Isfahan to study medicine under Ibn Sina.

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MedicineThe golden age, decline, and the debates about both

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Format
Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released
2013 CE · 1434 AH†
Countries
DE
Approach
historical drama

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Overview

A film based on the novel by Noah Gordon: an English young man travels to Isfahan to learn medicine from Ibn Sina in the eleventh century. 1 2

People and things also explored

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)· Abu Abdallah al-Natili· Ahmad al-Damanhuri· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad

Sources

  1. Wikidata
  2. IMDb
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islam.museum contributors. “The Physician”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/al-tabib-2013/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Persian polymath (c. 980–1037) whose Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing shaped medicine and philosophy across the Islamic world and Europe for centuries.