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School of Gundeshapur (Beth Lapat)

550–870

disputed. DISPUTED. The Christian physicians are attested; a formal 'academy' with a great library rests on later Arabic sources and is doubted by many historians.

Disputed. DISPUTED. The Christian physicians are attested; a formal 'academy' with a great library rests on later Arabic sources and is doubted by many historians.

School of Gundeshapur (Beth Lapat)
Sasanian silver coin of Khosrow I Anushirvan, Veh-Andiyok-Shabuhr (Gundeshapur) mint. Useful as a dated royal artifact from the city; it is not a picture of the school or of Christian physicians there.Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. (www.cngcoins.com), coin of Khosrow I, Gundeshapur mint, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0Source page

Gundeshapur had a Christian medical tradition: the Church of the East's Bukhtishu family of physicians came from its hospital and served the Abbasid caliphs from 765. Later Arabic writers describe a great Sasanian academy of medicine and philosophy there.

Place: Beth Lapat (Gundeshapur) · On the map

People

  • Bukhtishu family (Christian physicians, 8th-9th c.)
  • Jurjis ibn Bukhtishu (called to Baghdad, 765)

Manuscripts made here

  • Syriac and Arabic medical translations (tradition)

    Kept now: none securely identified

Sources

DeChurched Atlas — Early Christianity as history, from every source