Sultan's Physician

Born with a mind that astonishes scholars and rulers alike, Avicenna rises from gifted child to celebrated physician after saving the life of a dying emir.He gains access to the forbidden royal library, but his brilliance soon attracts powerful enemies. Travelling from court to court with his loyal student al-Jūzjānī, Avicenna refines a radical belief that body, mind, and soul cannot be separated.Continuing his work that will ultimately become The Canon of Medicine, Avicenna challenges the traditional beliefs. Finding rare intellectual freedom and a partnership with the scholar Laylā, their ideas will reshape the world.THE SULTAN'S PHYSICIAN is a richly woven portrait of one of history's greatest thinkers.