dar-al-maristan

Updated: May 28, 2025

Every sick man who comes is maintained at the Caliph's expense and is medically treated. Here is a building which is called Dar-al-Maristan, where they keep charge of the demented people who have become insane in the towns through the great heat in the summer, and they chain each of them in iron chains until their reason becomes restored to them in the winter-time.

of Tudela Benjamin - The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela