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140 relations: 'Adud al-Dawla, -stan, Abbasid Caliphate, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Academy of Gondishapur, Ahmad ibn Tulun, Al-Muqtadir, Al-Walid I, Al-Zahrawi, Alchemy, Aleppo, Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal, Ammar al-Mawsili, Anatomy, Arabic, Arabs, Aristotle, Avicenna, Şifaiye Medrese, Baghdad, Battle of the Trench, Biology, Cairo, Caliphate, Cannabis sativa, Cataract, Cataract surgery, Catheter, Cauterization, Córdoba, Spain, Chemistry, Christians, Complex of Sultan Bayezid II, Convalescence, Damascus, Dean (education), Dirham, Divriği, Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital, Edirne, Egypt, English literature, Eye, Eye disease, Fez, Morocco, Field hospital, Forceps, Fustat, Galen, Gevher Nesibe, ... Expand index (90 more) »
- Bimaristans
- Hospitals
- Hospitals established in the 9th century
- Iranian traditional medicine
- Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
- Types of hospitals
'Adud al-Dawla
Fannā (Panāh) Khusraw (پناه خسرو), better known by his laqab of ʿAḍud al-Dawla (lit; 24 September 936 – 26 March 983) was an emir of the Buyid dynasty, ruling from 949 to 983, and at his height of power ruling an empire stretching from Makran to Yemen and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
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-stan
stan (Persian: ستان) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. Bimaristan and -stan are Persian words and phrases.
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abu Bakr al-Razi
Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (full name: label),, often known as (al-)Razi or by his Latin name Rhazes, also rendered Rhasis, was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Academy of Gondishapur
The Academy of Gondishapur or "'Academy of Jondishapur"'(فرهنگستان گندیشاپور, Farhangestân-e Gondišâpur), also known as the Gondishapur University (دانشگاه گندیشاپور Dânešgâh-e Gondišapur), was one of the three Sasanian centers of education (Ctesiphon, Ras al-Ayn, Gundeshapur) and academy of learning in the city of Gundeshapur, Iran during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sasanian Empire.
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Ahmad ibn Tulun
Ahmad ibn Tulun (translit; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905.
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Al-Muqtadir
Abu’l-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Ahmad al-Muʿtaḍid (أبو الفضل جعفر بن أحمد المعتضد) (895 – 31 October 932 AD), better known by his regnal name al-Muqtadir bi-llāh (المقتدر بالله, "Mighty in God"), was the eighteenth caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 908 to 932 AD (295–320 AH), with the exception of a brief deposition in favour of al-Qahir in 929.
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Al-Walid I
Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; – 23 February 715), commonly known as al-Walid I (الوليد الأول), was the sixth Umayyad caliph, ruling from October 705 until his death in 715.
Al-Zahrawi
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (أبو القاسمخلف بن العباس الزهراوي;‎ 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي), Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim), was a physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus.
Alchemy
Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe.
Aleppo
Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.
Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal
ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Kahhal (fl. 1010 AD), surnamed "the oculist" (al-kahhal) was the best known and most celebrated Arab ophthalmologist of medieval Islam.
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Ammar al-Mawsili
Abu al-Qasim Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili was an important eleventh-century Arab Muslim ophthalmologist.
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Anatomy
Anatomy is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Avicenna
Ibn Sina (translit; – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers.
Şifaiye Medrese
Şifaiye Medresesi is a medrese built in 1217 in Sivas, Turkey.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Battle of the Trench
The Battle of the Trench (Ghazwat al-Khandaq), also known as the Battle of Khandaq (Ma’rakah al-Khandaq) and the Battle of the Confederates (Ghazwat al-Ahzab), was part of the conflict between the Muslims and the Quraysh, where this time the Quraysh took the offensive and advanced on the Muslims, who defended themselves in Medina by digging a trench around their settlement at the suggestion of Salman the Persian.
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Biology
Biology is the scientific study of life.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant.
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Cataract
A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that leads to a decrease in vision of the eye.
Cataract surgery
Cataract surgery, also called lens replacement surgery, is the removal of the natural lens of the eye that has developed a cataract, an opaque or cloudy area.
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Catheter
In medicine, a catheter is a thin tube made from medical grade materials serving a broad range of functions.
Cauterization
Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it.
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Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Complex of Sultan Bayezid II
The Complex of Sultan Bayezid II (Sultan II Bayezid Külliyesi) is a külliye located in Edirne, Turkey. Bimaristan and Complex of Sultan Bayezid II are bimaristans.
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Convalescence
Convalescence is the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury.
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Damascus
Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Dean (education)
Dean is a title employed in academic administrations such as colleges or universities for a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, over a specific area of concern, or both.
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Dirham
The dirham, dirhem or drahm (درهم) is a unit of currency and of mass.
Divriği
Divriği, historically Tephrike (Greek: Τεφρική), is a town in Sivas Province of Turkey.
Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital
Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (Divriği Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifası) is a mosque and hospital complex built in 1228–1229 by the local dynasty of the Mengujekids in the small Anatolian town of Divriği, now in Sivas Province, Turkey. Bimaristan and Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital are bimaristans.
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Edirne
Edirne, historically known as Adrianople (Adrianoúpolis), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
English literature
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.
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Eye
An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information.
Eye disease
This is a partial list of human eye diseases and disorders.
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Fez, Morocco
Fez or Fes (fās) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region.
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Field hospital
A field hospital is a temporary hospital or mobile medical unit that takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent facilities.
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Forceps
Forceps (forceps or considered a plural noun without a singular, often a pair of forceps; the Latin plural forcipes is no longer recorded in most dictionaries) are a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects.
Fustat
Fustat (translit), also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo.
Galen
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – 216 AD), often anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher.
Gevher Nesibe
Melike İsmetüddin Gevher Nesibe was an early 13th century princess of the Sultanate of Rum, the daughter of Kilij Arslan II and sister of Kaykhusraw I.
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Granada
Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
Hadith
Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.
Haemophilia
Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English), is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.
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Hammam
A hammam (translit, hamam), called a Moorish bath (in reference to the Muslim Spain of Al-Andalus) and a Turkish bath by Westerners, is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world.
Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.
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Hashish
Hashish (), commonly shortened to hash, is an oleoresin made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes.
History of hospitals
The history of hospitals began in antiquity with hospitals in Greece, the Roman Empire and on the Indian subcontinent as well, starting with precursors in the Asclepian temples in ancient Greece and then the military hospitals in ancient Rome. Bimaristan and history of hospitals are hospitals.
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History of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.
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History of medicine
The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
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Hospital
A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. Bimaristan and hospital are hospitals.
House of Mengüjek
The House of Mengüjek (Modern Turkish: Mengüçoğulları, Mengücek Beyliği or Mengüçlü Beyliği; the reigning dynasty is known as Mengujekids or Menkujakids) was an Anatolian beylik of the first period, founded after the Battle of Manzikert.
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Hulegu Khan
Hulegu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulaguᠬᠦᠯᠡᠭᠦ|lit.
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Humorism
Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) (أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; (808–873), known in Latin as Johannitius, was an influential Arab Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic Abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators, among whom were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Ibn Mūsā al-Nawbakhti, and Thābit ibn Qurra, to translate books of philosophy and classical Greek and Persian texts into Arabic and Syriac.
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Ibn al-Nafis
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزمالقرشي), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Arabic: ابن النفيس), was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy.
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Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
Internal medicine
Internal medicine, also known as general internal medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases in adults.
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Iranian Persian
Iranian Persian (translit), Western Persian or Western Farsi, natively simply known as Persian (translit), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.
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Islamic Golden Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.
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Islamic studies
Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies.
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Jabril ibn Bukhtishu
Jabril ibn Bukhtishu, (Jibril ibn Bakhtisha) also written as Bakhtyshu, was an 8th-9th century physician from the Bukhtishu family of Assyrian Nestorian physicians from the Persian Academy of Gundishapur.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence is the philosophy and theory of law.
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Kayseri
Kayseri is a large city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri province.
Lecture hall
A lecture hall (or lecture theatre) is a large room used for instruction, typically at a college or university.
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Leprosy
Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.
Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate (translit), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.
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Maristan of al-Mu'ayyad
The Maristan of al-Mu'ayyad or Bimaristan al-Mu'ayyadi is a bimaristan (hospital; also called maristan) constructed by the Mamluk sultan al-Mu'ayyad Sheikh between 1418 and 1420. Bimaristan and maristan of al-Mu'ayyad are bimaristans.
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Maristan of Granada
The Maristan of Granada was a bimaristan (hospital) in Granada, Spain.
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Maristan of Sidi Frej
The Maristan of Sidi Frej or Maristan of Fez was a historic maristan in Fez, Morocco. Bimaristan and maristan of Sidi Frej are bimaristans.
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Medical history
The medical history, case history, or anamnesis (from Greek: ἀνά, aná, "open", and μνήσις, mnesis, "memory") of a patient is a set of information the physicians collect over medical interviews.
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Medical record
The terms medical record, health record and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction.
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Medical specialty
A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy.
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Medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" Also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
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Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Muhtasib
A muḥtasib (محتسب, from the root ḥisbah, or "accountability"Sami Zubaida (2005), Law and Power in the Islamic World,, pages 58-60) was "a holder of the office of al-hisbah in classical Islamic administrations", according to Oxford Islamic Studies.
Music therapy
Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program." It is also a vocation, involving a deep commitment to music and the desire to use it as a medium to help others.
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Muslim conquest of Persia
The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military campaign undertaken by the Rashidun Caliphate between 632 and 654.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.
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Nestorianism
Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings.
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Nur al-Din Bimaristan
Nur al-Din Bimaristan (البيمارستان النوري) is a large Muslim medieval bimaristan ("hospital") in Damascus, Syria. Bimaristan and Nur al-Din Bimaristan are bimaristans.
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Nursing
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology is a clinical and surgical specialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders.
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Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
Organizational structure
An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision are directed toward the achievement of organizational aims.
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Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum, commonly known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae.
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Paul of Aegina
Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (Παῦλος Αἰγινήτης; Aegina) was a 7th-century Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing the medical encyclopedia Medical Compendium in Seven Books. He is considered the “Father of Early Medical Writing”.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Persians
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.
Pharmacist
A pharmacist, also known as a chemist in Commonwealth English, is a healthcare professional who is knowledgeable about preparation, mechanism of action, clinical usage and legislation of medications in order to dispense them safely to the public and to provide consultancy services.
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.
Pincers (tool)
Pincers are a hand tool used in many situations where a mechanical advantage is required to pinch, cut or pull an object.
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Polymath
A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
Pulmonary circulation
The pulmonary circulation is a division of the circulatory system in all vertebrates.
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Qalawun
(قلاوون الصالحي, – November 10, 1290) was the seventh Turkic Bahri Mamluk Sultan of Egypt; he ruled from 1279 to 1290.
Qalawun complex
The Qalawun complex (مجمع قلاون) is a massive pious complex in Cairo, Egypt, built by Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun from 1284 to 1285. Bimaristan and Qalawun complex are bimaristans.
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Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Ray, Iran
Shahre Ray, Shahr-e Ray, Shahre Rey, or Shahr-e Rey (Ŝahr-e Rey) or simply Ray or Rey (ری), is the capital of Rey County in Tehran Province, Iran.
Residency (medicine)
Residency or postgraduate training is a stage of graduate medical education.
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Ritual purity in Islam
Purity (طهارة, ṭahāra(h)) is an essential aspect of Islam.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rufaida Al-Aslamia
Rufayda Al-Aslamia (also transliterated Rufaida Al-Aslamiya or Rufaydah bint Sa`ad) (رفيدة الأسلمية) (born approx. 620 AD; 2 BH), was an Arab medical and social worker recognized as the first female Muslim nurse and the first female surgeon in Islam.
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Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Scalpel
A scalpel, lancet, or bistoury is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery, anatomical dissection, podiatry and various handicrafts.
Seljuk Empire
The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks.
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Sexually transmitted infection
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
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Siege of Baghdad
The siege of Baghdad took place in early 1258 at Baghdad, the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Sinan ibn Thabit
(أبو سعيد سنان بن ثابت بن قرة), –943, was a medieval scholar who served as the court physician of the Abbasid caliphs al-Muqtadir, al-Qahir, and al-Radi.
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Sivas
Sivas (Latin and Greek: Sebastia, Sebastea, Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή) is a city in central Turkey.
Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
Speculum (medicine)
A speculum (Latin for 'mirror';: specula or speculums) is a historical medical tool for investigating body orifices, with a form dependent on the orifice for which it is designed.
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Surgery
Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (i.e., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars or skin tags) or foreign bodies.
Syringe
A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel.
The Canon of Medicine
The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī l-ṭibb; Qānun dar Teb; Canon Medicinae) is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Muslim Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna (ابن سینا, ibn Sina) and completed in 1025.
See Bimaristan and The Canon of Medicine
Tigris
The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
See Bimaristan and Tuberculosis
Tunakabuni
Muḥammad Mu’min ibn Mīr Muḥammad Zamān Tunakābunī (محمد مؤمن بن میر محمد زمان تنکابنی) was a 17th-century Persian physician from Mazandaran.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.
See Bimaristan and Turkish language
Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
See Bimaristan and Umayyad Caliphate
Vizier
A vizier (wazīr; vazīr) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the Near East.
Waqf
A (وَقْف;, plural), also called a (plural حُبوس or أَحْباس), or mortmain property, is an inalienable charitable endowment under Islamic law.
Yahya ibn Khalid
Yahya ibn Khalid (Yahyā ibn Khālid; died) was the most prominent member of the Barmakid family, serving as provincial governor and all-powerful long-time vizier to Caliph Harun al-Rashid before his abrupt fall in 803.
See Bimaristan and Yahya ibn Khalid
See also
Bimaristans
- Al-'Adudi Hospital
- Bimaristan
- Complex of Sultan Bayezid II
- Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital
- Maristan of Sidi Frej
- Maristan of al-Mu'ayyad
- Muristan
- Nur al-Din Bimaristan
- Qalawun complex
Hospitals
- Asclepieion
- Assiut University Hospitals
- Base hospital
- Bimaristan
- Binaytara Foundation Cancer Center
- COVID-19 hospital
- Charitable hospital
- Clinical handover
- Community hospital
- Early postnatal hospital discharge
- GP Liaison
- History of hospitals
- Hospital
- Hospital Saint Bois Murals
- Hospital accreditation
- Hospital bed
- Hospital departments
- Hospital emergency codes
- Hospital medicine
- Hospital network
- Hospital networks
- Hospital volunteer
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitals
- International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services
- List of countries by hospital beds
- Lists of hospitals
- Malhas Hospital
- Morning report (medicine)
- Operating theater
- Predictive methods for surgery duration
- Regional hospital
- Rural hospitals theorem
- State hospital
- Underground hospital
- Weekend effect
Hospitals established in the 9th century
- Bimaristan
Iranian traditional medicine
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
- Bimaristan
- Camel urine
- Cupping therapy
- Dodecapharmacum
- Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
- Ophthalmology in the medieval Islamic world
- Prophetic medicine
- Psychology in the medieval Islamic world
- Spirit possession and exorcism in Islam
Types of hospitals
- Almshouse
- Almshouses
- Base hospital
- Bimaristan
- COVID-19 hospital
- Charitable hospital
- Community hospital
- Hospital ship
- Hospital ships
- Hospital train
- Military hospitals
- Nightingale ward
- Non-profit hospital
- Private hospitals
- Public hospitals
- Regional hospital
- Secondary hospital
- State hospital
- Teaching hospitals
- Tertiary referral hospital
- Underground hospital
- Virtual Hospital
- Xenodochium
References
Also known as Bimarestan, Dar Al Shifaa, Dâr al-Shifâ, Darüssifa, Darüşşifa, Islamic Hospitals, Islamic hospital, Maristan.