LITTLE GENIUS: IBN SINA
NEW HISTORICAL TV SERIES
Since we are in the middle of the writers' strike I have promised you we will cover that period by venturing more into the international waters, so
today we are voyaging over to Turkey where a new ten episode historical saga has already started airing earlier this month. LITTLE GENIUS: IBN SINA (Küçük Dahi: İbn-i Sina) kicked off its run last Sunday on TRT. The series depicts the the childhood of legendary Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, one of the most significant 10th century physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. You can check out the beautiful series trailer below and tell us what you think.
| The series has ten episodes in the first season |
THE STORY OF THE SERIES
Ibn-i Sina is a curious boy who seeks to discover knowledge, does not
fit into his age, and has an intelligence beyond his time. He reads
Aristotle's Metaphysics book many times in order to understand it, does
research instead of playing games like his peers, and mostly talks with
his best friend, the goat Socrates. Kaan Alp Uncle, Meriç Özkaya, Deniz
Bolışık, Ekin Pasvanoğlu, Mehmet Ali Kaptanlar, Recep Efe Ekemen take
part in the cast. Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus
later on included writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology,
psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of
poetry.
