SÜLEYMAP4İYE TIP MEDRESESİ - İl"

Although we have no sources JuJly explaining the teaching and the educational mcttuxls followed in llic SUlcymaniyc Medical Medrese, il ts understood from its deed (vakfiye), the lnws far courts and medrese* (ilmiye kanunnameleri) and primary sources belonging to the classical period (] 3(M3-16(H)). that (he leadline was (unQOTty carried out in terms Of masicr-apprentice method. In ihc deed, we can't see a clear staicmcni about the days and hours t>1 the courses, Bui, we know in general, tJıai Süleyman The Magnificent stipulated to teach live courses a day on lour weekdays. Regarding ihc holidays, it is tltoughl that prc-Oltoman practices were followed: Tuesday. Thursday, Friday and festival days were holidays and Hie rcsl was for teaching. But these iMilidays could he lessened accordingly, Ahbıî Todcrin i who lived between 17SI - I7K6 in Istanbul, gives information about die teaching method in Ihc Medical Medrese ol' Süleymaniye in a Chapter of his famous book De Li Littfruuire Des Tura. According to Todcrini, Turkish teachers taught courses in general pathology and surgery in Süleyman iye. Beside Turkish students. Ihc courses were open lo those who wished There wasn't any obtiaclc lir Europeans to attend Ihesc courses Ubc/io. a physician, said thai he followed ihc courses many times as a listener The teaching method consisted of reading medical hooks, studying ifaseases and medicines through clinical observations and benefiting from physiciansL knowledge and advices. The textbooks used in the SUleymuniye Medical Medrese arc only generally mentioned in the deed and oilier sources. Hasan Bey zade Ahmed Paşa (d. 1 f»3ft) in his Tarih says that "Tohih danişmc-ndlcri kiiliih-i iıbdan oi medresede ders itkuritu ' But he doesn't mention tlie names of the textbooks. On the other hand, according lo the deed courses on logic (UnH mizan), medicine iilm-i 98 Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları İV/1 (2002) ebdan) and fenn i hikmet (ulum-i akliye, rational sciences) were somehow taught in tlic medical medrese. This medrese offered medical education for about three centuries long and functioned as an infrastructuraf institution providing doctors lor almost all Ottdmap medical institutions and mostly for the Fatih Hospital (Istanbul). The Süleymaniye Medical Medreses graduates or students such as Osman Salt) Efendi. Abdulhak Molla and Mustafa Behçet Efendi were among the founders and teachers of tlic modern medical school in 1S27. Thus, they pioneered in modernizing the medical education in Turkey.