Set in 11th-century when nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of London to small villages throughout England and finally to the medical school at Ispahan. Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sickand discovering the mystical ways of healing. In Persia, the surgeon's apprentice (Tom Payne) disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians .Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon (Stellan Skarsgård) , it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by the legendary Persian physician Avicenna (Ben Kingsley) in Ispahan that inspires him to accept his gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Avicenna's school. There our starring attends an Arab university where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever. Despite the ban on Christian students, Rob goes there, disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission.
An adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice . Based on Noah Gordon bestseller , Director Philipp Stölzl adapts faithfully the known novel . Made in an attractive style , especially on the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, adding a peculiar travel that he found his own very real gift for healing a gift that urged him on to become a doctor , and though the road to enlightenment is a difficult one, the young boy forms many human connections that instill him with the fortitude to pursue his ambitious goal. Main and support cast are pretty good. Stars Tom Payne as the young boy who changes his name to Jesse Ben Benjamin, posing of Jewish to study medicine under renowned Persian expert Ibn Sina, Stellan Skarsgård as the sympathetic rogue Barber-surgeon , Emma Rigby as the Jewish girl with whom he falls in love, Olivier Martinez as Shah Ala ad Daula who fights relentlessly against the Seljusids and special mention for Ben Kingsley as the wise scientist/physician Avicenna.
The film based on historical events and and particularly of the famous scientist Ibn Sina , commonly known in the West as Avicenna , was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Sajjad H. Rizvi has called Avicenna "arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era". He was a Muslim Peripatetic philosopher influenced by Greek Aristotelian philosophy. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry. He created an extensive corpus of works during what is commonly known as the Islamic Golden Age, in which the translations of Byzantine Greco-Roman, Persian and Indian texts were studied extensively. Greco-Roman (Mid- and Neo-Platonic, and Aristotelian) texts translated by the Kindi school were commented, redacted and developed substantially by Islamic intellectuals, who also built upon Persian and Indian mathematical systems, astronomy, algebra, trigonometry and medicine. The Samanid dynasty in the eastern part of Persia, Greater Khorasan and Central Asia as well as the Buyid dynasty in the western part of Persia and Iraq provided a thriving atmosphere for scholarly and cultural development. Under the Samanids, Bukhara rivaled Baghdad as a cultural capital of the Islamic world. The physicians and philosophers Abu Abdallah al-Natili and Abu Sahl al-Masihi educated Avicenna. Together, they studied the Isagoge of Porphyry and possibly the Categories of Aristotle as well. After Avicenna had read the Almagest of Ptolemy , Euclid's Elements, and in Greek sciences. Avicenna wrote extensively on early Islamic philosophy, especially the subjects logic, ethics and metaphysics, including treatises named Logic and Metaphysics.
An adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice . Based on Noah Gordon bestseller , Director Philipp Stölzl adapts faithfully the known novel . Made in an attractive style , especially on the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, adding a peculiar travel that he found his own very real gift for healing a gift that urged him on to become a doctor , and though the road to enlightenment is a difficult one, the young boy forms many human connections that instill him with the fortitude to pursue his ambitious goal. Main and support cast are pretty good. Stars Tom Payne as the young boy who changes his name to Jesse Ben Benjamin, posing of Jewish to study medicine under renowned Persian expert Ibn Sina, Stellan Skarsgård as the sympathetic rogue Barber-surgeon , Emma Rigby as the Jewish girl with whom he falls in love, Olivier Martinez as Shah Ala ad Daula who fights relentlessly against the Seljusids and special mention for Ben Kingsley as the wise scientist/physician Avicenna.
The film based on historical events and and particularly of the famous scientist Ibn Sina , commonly known in the West as Avicenna , was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Sajjad H. Rizvi has called Avicenna "arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era". He was a Muslim Peripatetic philosopher influenced by Greek Aristotelian philosophy. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry. He created an extensive corpus of works during what is commonly known as the Islamic Golden Age, in which the translations of Byzantine Greco-Roman, Persian and Indian texts were studied extensively. Greco-Roman (Mid- and Neo-Platonic, and Aristotelian) texts translated by the Kindi school were commented, redacted and developed substantially by Islamic intellectuals, who also built upon Persian and Indian mathematical systems, astronomy, algebra, trigonometry and medicine. The Samanid dynasty in the eastern part of Persia, Greater Khorasan and Central Asia as well as the Buyid dynasty in the western part of Persia and Iraq provided a thriving atmosphere for scholarly and cultural development. Under the Samanids, Bukhara rivaled Baghdad as a cultural capital of the Islamic world. The physicians and philosophers Abu Abdallah al-Natili and Abu Sahl al-Masihi educated Avicenna. Together, they studied the Isagoge of Porphyry and possibly the Categories of Aristotle as well. After Avicenna had read the Almagest of Ptolemy , Euclid's Elements, and in Greek sciences. Avicenna wrote extensively on early Islamic philosophy, especially the subjects logic, ethics and metaphysics, including treatises named Logic and Metaphysics.