Darüşşifas Where Music Threapy was Practiced During Anatolian Seljuks and Ottomans / Selçuklu ve Osmanlı Darüşşifalarında Müzikle Tedavi
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Music therapy, one of the oldest treatment methods known, dates back to thousands of years.Turks' using music therapy practices in hospitals -Ottoman and Seljuk hospitalsbuilt with appropriate acoustic in the treatment of mental disorders, utilizing the books which included the researches done by scientists such as Đbni Sina, Razî, Farabî, Hasan Şuurî and in Gevrekzade Hasan Efendi in music therapy and improving music therapy practices exemplarily in the period of Ottomans and Seljukians is assessed as the first serious music therapy practices.Darüşşifa is one of the names given to medical and educational establishments which give people health service depending on practice and observation and treated patients in Turkish and Islamic world.Turks started various reconstruction activities following their settlement in Anatolia.Within a short period, they built several types of artifacts such as; caravansaries, madrasahs, mosques, darüşşifas.In Seljukian and Ottoman darüşşifas, medical subjects were taught according to researches and scientific principals, and surgeons were educated at medical madrasahs as well.Medical health care service was provided in those places.In this study, of darüşşifas where music therapy was practised the ones surviving today and having importance have been analyzed so as to emphasize how curative power of art history and music was used by Turkish people centuries ago.From this point of view, Kayseri Gevher Nesibe Tıp Medresesi (Medical madrasah) (1206), Divriği Ulu Camii ve Darüşşifası (Mosque and Hospital) (1228), Amasya Darüşşifası (1309), Fatih Darüşşifası (1470) Edirne Sultan II.Bayezid Darüşşifası (1488), Süleymaniye Tıp Medresesi and Şifahanesi (Medical Madrasah and Hospital) (1556) have been examined in this study as the featured ones among the institutions where music therapy was practised.
Authors: Gülşen Erdal, İlknur Erbaş
Institution: Kocaeli Üniversitesi
Language: Turkish
Topic: Music Therapy and Health
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1966717987