Gondeshapur Revisited: What Historical Evidence?

Gondeshapur Revisited: What Historical Evidence?Archives of Iranian MedicineSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/FHGUGUAH/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.TourajNayernouriGondeshapur Revisited: What Historical Evidence?http://syriaca.org/cbss/FHGUGUAHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/FHGUGUAHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/FHGUGUAHArchives of Iranian Medicine20:42017254-260In recent years, in European academic circles, there has been a trend to dismiss Gondeshapur as a myth perpetrated by the Bokhtishu family in early Islamic era, despite many historiographical attestations. The writings of Islamic historians such as Al-Qifti and Ibn Abi Usaibia have been discounted as exaggerations by non-contemporary historians, and the lack of primary Pahlavi sources blamed for historical hyperbole. In this essay, I have attempted to show through primary Syriac Christian texts, that there was both a medical school and a bimarestan in Gondeshapur in pre-Islamic Sassanid era, and that Galenic medical texts had been translated and taught in that institution. Nayernouri, Touraj. “Gondeshapur Revisited: What Historical Evidence?” Archives of Iranian Medicine 20:4 (2017): 254–60. Touraj Nayernouri, Gondeshapur Revisited: What Historical Evidence?, Archives of Iranian Medicine 20:4 (2017): 254–60.GundishapurIV-VII CEMuslim-Christian relationsNestoriansVII-XVIII CEmedicineschoolsscience