Al-'Adudi Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Baghdad, Iraq |
Coordinates | 33°21′N 44°22′E / 33.350°N 44.367°E |
Organisation | |
Funding | Private |
Type | Teaching |
Patron | 'Adud al-Dawla |
History | |
Opened | 981 |
Demolished | 1258 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in Iraq |
The Al-'Adudi Hospital was established during the era of organized hospitals developed in medieval Islamic culture.[1] Some of these early hospitals were located in Baghdad and among those was the bimaristan Al-'Adudi.[2] The hospital came to be when King of the Buyid Dynasty, 'Adud al-Dawla, decided to construct the hospital a few years before he died.[3][2] Al-'Adudi was considered one of the most innovative and modern hospitals of the medieval Islamic time period.[4] Amongst well-known physicians of the time period, this hospital was known as an institution for learning and practicing medicine.