It is a 12th century copy of a book written in the 9th century. Hospitals were built in cities like Baghdad, Isfahan and Cairo in the early Islamic centuries. They were some of the first in the ...

The Muslim thinker, Abu 'Isa al-Warraq, lived in ninth-century Baghdad. He is remembered for his extensive knowledge of non-Muslim religious communities and his unorthodox views on Islam itself. This ...