The Physician

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

• based on novel or book
• persia
• jew persecution
• historical figure
• religious fundamentalism
• teacher student relationship
• middle ages (476-1453)
• medieval
• black death
• medical student
• 11th century
• medieval england
• medieval physician
• seljuk turks