Editing Avicenna (section)

====In popular culture====

The 1982 Soviet film ''Youth of Genius'' ({{langx|ru|Юность гения|Yunost geniya|links=no}}) by {{Interlanguage link|Elyor Ishmukhamedov|ru|3=Ишмухамедов, Эльёр Мухитдинович}} recounts Avicenna's younger years. The film is set in Bukhara at the turn of the millennium.<ref>"Youth of Genius" (USSR, Uzbekfilm and Tajikfilm, 1982): 1984&nbsp;– State Prize of the USSR (Elyer Ishmuhamedov); 1983&nbsp;– VKF (All-Union Film Festival) Grand Prize (Elyer Ishmuhamedov); 1983&nbsp;– VKF (All-Union Film Festival) Award for Best Cinematography (Tatiana Loginov). See [http://kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/8140/annot/ annotation on kino-teatr.ru] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020141148/http://kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/8140/annot/ |date=20 October 2014 }}.</ref>

In [[Louis L'Amour]]'s 1985 historical novel ''[[The Walking Drum]]'', Kerbouchard studies and discusses Avicenna's ''The Canon of Medicine''.

In his book ''[[The Physician]]'' (1988) [[Noah Gordon (novelist)|Noah Gordon]] tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to travel from England to Persia and learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time. The novel was adapted into a feature film, ''[[The Physician (2013 film)|The Physician]]'', in 2013. Avicenna was played by [[Ben Kingsley]].