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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

Screening Room

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

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

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)· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad· Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi· al-Nadir ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi· al-Tiflisi Jamal al-Din Abu al-Fadl Habash ibn Ibrahim· Dawud al-Antaki· Ibn al-Baddhukh, Umar ibn Ali· Ibn al-Bitar Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad

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. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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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.