A Historical Review of the Establishment and Administration of Hospitals and Medical Education Centers in the Islamic Civilization

Creating a place for looking after patients has been an important issue that has been developed among different ethnic groups during the pre-Islamic period and in Islam with the guidance of the Prophet's Tradition (PBUH), caring for the wounded, constructing hospitals and the medical centers. The purpose of this article is to find the right answer to the question of how to finance the construction and administration of hospitals and medical education centers in Islamic civilization.

This research is based on a descriptive-analytical methodology and the information was collected in a library, followed by a search for historical sources in order to categorize and analyze data for the article.

In the history of Islamic civilization, the establishment and administration of hospitals would not necessarily take place with patients' money but it was financed by the wealthy men of the time. In Islam, hospital has a close relationship with the social, economic, and cultural history of its era and has been an integral part of the history of the Islamic culture and civilization.

There were various ways in Islamic civilization to finance the establishment and administration of hospitals and medical centers, the most important of which was the appropriation of endowments, the allocation of state funding by caliphs, kings, ministers and charities.