Parallel with the World Museum Day, a book fair is held in the Malek National Museum displaying medical manuscripts.
According
to the public relations office of the Malek National Museum and Library, the
exhibition is arranged to put on display 15 exquisite medical tomes.
In
Iran, medicine dates back to the pre-Islamic era. The first medical education
center in Iran was set up under the Sassanid dynasty in Gundeshapur near modern
Ahvaz.
The
blossoming of medicine in Iran dates back to the ninth to the fourteenth
century AD which is called the golden age of medicine in Iran. It was during
which time that Iran's most prominent medical figures turned out like Zakaria
Razi, Avicenna and Sharagodin Jorjani.
Some
of the displayed books at the fair are: the Arabic version of the
Kharazmshahiyeh Zakhreh (the only copy in the world), Tohfe Sa'adiyeh and the
Small Law.
The
fair opened today and will be on till June 5, 2011.
Source:
IBNA News Agency