4 Films & TV Shows Set In Egypt During The Middle Ages

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  The Physician

  England 🇮🇷 Iran 🇪🇬 Egypt The 11th Century

  A journey out of darkness into light — England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

  Released in 2013 • 155 minutes
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  Agora

  🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇹 Italy The 4th Century The 5th Century The Middle Ages

  Alexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever. — A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

  Released in 2009 • 127 minutes
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  Journey to Mecca

  🇪🇬 Egypt 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇾 Syria The 14th Century

  In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta — The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.

  Released in 2009 • 45 minutes
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  Oh Islam

  🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇷 Iran 🇸🇾 Syria The 13th Century

  Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

  Released in 1961 • 110 minutes