Journal of Islamicjerusalem Studies

Yazarlar: Fatma İNCE

Konular:Tarih

DOI:10.31456/beytulmakdis.494295

Anahtar Kelimeler:Zengi,Nur al-Din,Nur al-Din’s Hospital,Damascus,Medicine

Özet: Atabegs of Mosul who were subject of the Great Seljuk state and began to act independently during the disintegration of the Seljuk State. To the Seljuks the title “atabeg” was given to those individuals who were engaged in the education of the sultan’s children. This title was initially given to the Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk. Atabegs were originally responsible with dealing with the princes of the Seljuk dynasty and their crowning as sultans.  As the state was weakening the Atabegs engaged in establishing their own sovereignty and rule. The Zengid Dynasty also has emerged in the same manner and Nur al-Din Mahmud Zengi is considered as one of the most renowned of the Zengids. In addition to his successful struggles against the Crusaders, he has an important place in Islamic medicine because of the hospital which were founded under his own name. It is rumoured that he had built this hospital with the ransom taken from a Frankish king who had been captured during the Crusades. The present state of the structure reveals to us the oldest Seljuk hospital and it is still intact in its original form. Quite extensive information about this educational institution and how the education was conducted within it reaches us from the ophthalmologist and medical historian Ibn Abi Usaibia through his book Ṭabaqāt al-Aṭibbā.

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