Bimarestan

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. 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.

7th century	Abu Hafsa Yazid • Bukhtishu • Masarjawaih • Nafi ibn al-Harith • Ibn Abi Ramtha al-Tamimi • Rufaida Al-Aslamia

8th century	Bukhtishu family

9th century	Albubather • Bukhtishu family • Jabril ibn Bukhtishu • Jābir ibn Hayyān • Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his son • Yahya ibn Sarafyun • Al-Kindi • Masawaiyh • Sabur ibn Sahl • Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari • Al-Ruhawi • Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu

10th century	Qusta ibn Luqa • Abu ul-Ala Shirazi • Abul Hasan al-Tabari • Al-Natili • Qumri • Abu Zayd al-Balkhi • Isaac Israeli ben Solomon • Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi • Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi • Muvaffak • Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi • Ibn Juljul • Al-Zahrawi • Ibn al-Jazzar • Al-Kaŝkarī • Ibn Abi al-Ashʿath • Ibn al-Batriq • Ibrahim ibn Baks

11th century	Abu Ubaid Juzjani • Alhazen • Ali ibn Ridwan • Avicenna • Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran • Ibn al-Wafid • Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu • Ibn Butlan • Ibn al-Kattani • Ibn Jazla • Masawaih al-Mardini • Yusuf al-Ilaqi • Ibn Al-Thahabi • Ibn Abi Sadiq • ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Kahhal

12th century	Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar • Ahmad ibn Farrokh • Ismail Gorgani • Ibn Hubal • Zayn al-Din Gorgani • Maimonides • Serapion the Younger • Ibn Zuhr • Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili • Abu Jafar ibn Harun of Trujillo • Averroes • Ibn Tufail • Al-Ghafiqi • Ibn Abi al-Hakam • Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī • Samauʼal Al-Maghribī • Ibn al-Tilmīdh

13th century	Sa'ad al-Dawla • Al-Shahrazuri • Rashidun al-Suri • Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat • Avraham son of Rambam • Da'ud Abu al-Fadl • Al-Dakhwar • Ibn Abi Usaibia • Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta • Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer) • Ibn al-Nafis • Zakariya al-Qazwini • Najib ad-Din-e-Samarqandi • Qotb al-Din Shirazi • Ibn al-Quff

14th century	Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli • Al-Nagawri • Aqsara'i • Zayn-e-Attar • Mansur ibn Ilyas • Jaghmini • Mas‘ud ibn Muhammad Sijzi • Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi • Nakhshabi • Sadid al-Din al-Kazaruni • Yusuf ibn Ismail al-Kutubi • Ibn al-Khatib • Rashid-al-Din Hamadani

15th century	Abu Sa'id al-Afif • Muhammad Ali Astarabadi • Husayni Isfahani • Burhan-ud-din Kermani • Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu • Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi • Nurbakhshi • Shaykh Muhammad ibn Thaleb

16th century	Hakim-e-Gilani • Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani • Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

Concepts

Psychology • Ophthalmology

Works

The Canon of Medicine • Anatomy Charts of the Arabs • The Book of Healing • Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye • De Gradibus • Al-Tasrif • Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi • Adab al-Tabib ("Practical Ethics of the Physician")

Centers

Bimaristan • Nur al-Din Bimaristan • Al-'Adudi

Influences

Ancient Greek medicine

Influenced

Medical Renaissance

Bimarestan

See also

Further reading