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The present article focuses on the issue of hospital institutions in Morocco and Al-Andalus in the middle Ages. The analysis of the data collected had shown that they had undergone gradual developments. They had gone from closed and more private areas to the mansions of doctors and sanatoriums of palaces in public areas. Those latter used to be more open and easily accessible in the form of shops across the streets and markets of the city from the fifth to the eleventh century. In the following century, public hospitals named Maristane emerged to be reserved for foreigners, the poor and the alienated. In this way, the Moroccan-Andalusian society managed to maintain and treat both its members and its guests. Certainly, the development of those institutions left very profound traces on the architecture of the Moroccan-Andalusian city and reflected a very advanced level in the expansion of medicine.
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