Avicenna - Master Healer (part 2): Avicenna

Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was the most important physician and one of the most important philosophers of the medieval world. This is the second part of his story, and it covers the years when a teenage prodigy in Bukhara became famous enough to be summoned to the bedside of a dying king, and then lived to watch the entire civilization that made him collapse around him. The episode opens in the sickroom of the Samanid ruler Nuh ibn Mansur, whose own court physicians have run out...