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“Gundeshapur” as a book category centers on the Sasanian-era Academy of Gundeshapur (also Jundishapur/Gondeshapur) in Khuzestan and its broader world: a cosmopolitan nexus where Persian, Syriac, Greek, and Indian scholars exchanged and advanced knowledge in medicine, pharmacology, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy from late antiquity into the early Islamic period. This shelf would include works on the academy itself and its teaching-hospital tradition (often cited as among the earliest), the translation and transmission of texts across languages and faiths, biographies of physicians and scholars (e.g., the Bukhtishu family), studies of Sasanian and early Abbasid intellectual culture, archaeology and regional history, and historical fiction inspired by this milieu. In short, “Gundeshapur” marks books about cross-cultural scholarship and the pathways by which ancient sciences were preserved, transformed, and passed on.

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