Darü ifas Where Music Threapy was Practiced During Anatolian Seljuks and Ottomans

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 hospitals- built with appropriate acoustic in the treatment of mental disorders, utilizing the books which included the researches done by scientists such as bni Sina, Raz , Farab , Hasan uur 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. Darü ifa 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, darü ifas. In Seljukian and Ottoman darü ifas, 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 darü ifas 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 T p Medresesi (Medical madrasah) (1206), Divri i Ulu Camii ve Darü ifas (Mosque and Hospital) (1228), Amasya Darü ifas (1309), Fatih Darü ifas (1470) Edirne Sultan II. Bayezid Darü ifas (1488), Süleymaniye T p Medresesi and ifahanesi (Medical Madrasah and Hospital) (1556) have been examined in this study as the featured ones among the institutions where music therapy was practised. zetMüzi in insanlar üzerinde b rakt psikolojik ve fiziksel etki günümüzde a k a bilinmektedir. Bilinen en eski tedavi y ntemlerinden biri olan Müzikle tedavinin ge mi i binlerce y l ncesine dayan r. Türklerin, müzikle tedavide bn Sina, Raz , Farab , Hasan uur ve Gevrekzade Hasan Efendi gibi bilim adamlar n n yapt klar ara t rmalar n yer ald kitaplardan faydalanarak, Sel uklu ve Osmanl lar d neminde, ak l hastal klar n n tedavisine uygun akustikle in a edilen hastaneler-darü ifalarda kullanmalar , ilk ciddi müzikle tedavi uygulamalar olarak de erlendirilir. Darü ifa, Türk ve slam dünyas nda prati e ve g zleme dayal sa l k hizmetleri veren hastalar tedavi eden sa l k ve e itim kurumlar na verilen isimlerden b