The major Baghdadi teaching hospital, al-Bīmāristān al-ʿAḍudī, was built in 981 by Aḍud al-Dawlah (936-983). This centre lasted until its destruction in 1258 by the Mongol invasion and siege of Bagdad.
For more information on Bīmāristāns more generally, see:
- Ch 14 Ahmed Ragab, in Pormann (pp.136-145).
- Further reading suggested by Pormann book:
Pormann, Peter E. (2008). Medical methodology and hospital practice: the case of fourth-/tenth-century Baghdad. In Peter Adamson (ed.), In the Age of Al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth-Tenth Century. Warburg Institute. pp. 95–118.
Pormann, PE 2010, Islamic Hospitals in the Time of al-Muqtadir. in J Nawas (ed.), Abbasid Studies II: Occasional Papers of the School of ‘Abbasid Studies, Leuven, 28 June – 1 July 2004. Peeters, Leuven, pp. 337-382.
Ragab, A. (2015). The medieval Islamic hospital : medicine, religion, and charity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Horden, P. (2005). The Earliest Hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 35(3), 361–389. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3657030]
- Abdel-Halim p. 168 (Surgical Wards in Bimaristans) and Ch7 (Medical Education during the Medieval Islamic Era) pp.174-219 (particularly pp.175-177)
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