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    A bimaristan (Persian: بيمارستان, romanized: bīmārestān; Arabic: بِيْمَارِسْتَان, romanized: bīmāristān), or simply maristan,[clarification needed] known...
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    Nur al-Din Bimaristan (Arabic: البيمارستان النوري) is a large Muslim medieval bimaristan ("hospital") in Damascus, Syria. It is located in the al-Hariqa...
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    The Maristan of Granada (Spanish: Maristán de Granada) was a bimaristan (hospital) in Granada, Spain. It was built in the 14th century during the Nasrid...
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    exclusively for the military, by the end of the 15th century. The Islamic bimaristan served as a center of medical treatment, as well nursing home and lunatic...
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  • Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France) Valetudinaria...
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    entails the rise of organized institutional psychiatry. Hospitals known as bimaristans were built in the Middle East in the early ninth century; the first was...
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    corpses despite Cairo having a medieval hospital, the late 13th-century bimaristan of the Qalawun complex. The historian al-Maqrizi described the abundant...
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    Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards Archaic forms Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France) Valetudinaria...
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    Muristan (category Bimaristans)
    Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was the location of the first Bimaristan of the Knights Hospitaller. The name Muristan is derived from the Persian...
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    traveling bimaristans to include doctors and pharmacists. Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik is often credited with building the first bimaristan in Damascus...
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