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Gondēshāpūr was the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire and the home of the Academy of Gundishapur.
Founded by Sassanid king Shapur I, Gundeshapur was home to a teaching hospital, and also comprised a library and a centre of higher learning. It has been identified with extensive ruins south of Shahabad, a village 14 km south-east of Dezful, to the road for Shush, in the present-day province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran. It is not an organised archaeological place as of today, and except of the ruins it is full of remainings like broken ceramics.
Despite the fame, recently, some scholars have called Gundeshapur's overall historical importance, specifically, the existence of its hospital, into question.
The famous Austrian philosopher, educator and occultist, Rudolf Steiner, spoke on occasion of the importance of Gondishapur (or Gundishapur) in world history. In essence, Steiner saw the culture as a premature efflorescence which was (necessarily) destroyed by the Islamic hordes in the 7th Century.