Azerbaijan

The well-known doctor and historian born in the family of physician in Hamadan,  later moved to Tabriz and lived and created there. Being a court doctor and vizier of Elkhanids Reshidaddin, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and Tabriz "Rabi-Rashidi" township" and Darus-Shafa ("Health House") scientific center was founded. "Rabi-Rashidi" was a town uniting an educational, medical, scientific institutions, as well as observatory. "Darush-shafa" was high school (madrasah) like modern universities. There, along with the Azerbaijani scholars and teachers experts invited from different countries China, India, Egypt and Syria worked, too. Library of "Darus-Shafa" had ten thousand manuscript books brought from Iran, India, Egypt, China, Crete and other countries. Here 6-7 thousand students came every year from different countries of the East to learn philosophy, history, medicine, astronomy, logic.