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Bimaristan is a Persian word ( بیمارستان bīmārestān ) meaning hospital, with Bimar- from Middle Persian (Pahlavi) of vīmār or vemār , meaning "sick" plus -stan as location and place suffix.1In the medieval Islamic world , the word "Bimaristan" was used to indicate a hospital in the modern sense, an establishment where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.2In this way, Muslim physicians were the first to make a distinction between a hospital and other different forms of healing temples , sleep temples , hospices , asylums , and leper -houses, all of which in ancient times were more concerned with isolating the sick and the mad from society "rather than to offer them any way to a true cure." The medieval Bimaristan hospitals are thus considered "the first hospitals" in the modern sense of the word. The first public hospitals , psychiatric hospitals and Medical schools / universities were also introduced by medieval Muslim physicians.3
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In the medieval Islamic world , the word "Bimaristan" was used to indicate a hospital where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.
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Bimaristan ( ; ), in the Islamic world , was used to indicate a hospital where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.Additionally, the name dar al-shifa (also darüşşifa in Turkish ) or the shorter version maristan were also used for this purpose .In English literature, these words are often used to designate the historical or pre-modern institutions which existed in the Islamic world, but these words are also still used sometimes in their native languages to refer to modern hospitals or to specific types of medical institutions.(ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.
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Healthcare center in the Islamic World Reconstruction of the Nasrid Bimaristan of Granada , in Spain (former al-Andalus ).A bimaristan ( ; ), also known as dar al-shifa (also darüşşifa in Turkish ) or simply maristan , is a hospital in the historic Islamic world .
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Healthcare center in the Islamic World Reconstruction of the Nasrid Bimaristan of Granada , in Spain (former al-Andalus ) A bimaristan ( Persian : بيمارستان , romanized : bīmārestān ; Arabic : بِيْمَارِسْتَان , romanized : bīmāristān ), or simply maristan , known in Arabic also as dar al-shifa ("house of healing"; darüşşifa in Turkish ), is a hospital in the historic Islamic world .Its origins can be traced back to Sassanian Empire prior to the Muslim conquest of Persia .The word "bimaristan" is still used in the dialect of Persian spoken in Iran for hospitals.
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