Avicenna - Master Healer (part 1): Avicenna

Ibn Sina, known in the Latin West as Avicenna and in the Islamic East as al-Shaykh al-Ra'is, the Preeminent Master, was one of the greatest physicians and philosophers in human history. This first episode of our deep dive into his life follows the child before the legend: a boy born around 980 near Bukhara, the dazzling capital of the Samanid dynasty and one of the brightest cities of the Islamic Golden Age. We trace his astonishing youth as he tells it in his own autobiography, the one true ...