Academy of Gundishapur

The Academy of Gondishapur (in Persian: دانشگاه گندی‌شاپور, Dânešgâh e Gondišâpur), also Jondishapur , was a renowned academy of learning in the city of Gundeshapur, Iran/Persia during late antiquity, the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire. It offered training in medicine, philosophy, theology and science. The faculty were versed in the Zoroastrian and Persian traditions. According to The Cambridge History of Iran, it was the most important medical center of the ancient world during the 6th and 7th centuries. In 489 AD, the Nestorian theological and scientific center in Edessa was ordered closed by the Byzantine emperor Zeno, and transferred itself to become the School of Nisibis, also known as "Nisibīn, then under Persian rule...