Quarantine

===Medieval Islamic world===
A [[hadith]] attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad advised individuals present in a region with a plague outbreak to remain in place, and advised healthy individuals to avoid traveling there.<ref>{{cite web|author=Souleymane Bachir Diagne|title=Lessons from the Hadith of the Plague|url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/islam-lessons-hadith-plague|work=[[Columbia University]] News|date=23 April 2020|department=In Brief}}</ref> The Persian Muslim polymath [[Avicenna]] argued for controlling “the spread of diseases" in his medical encyclopedia The Canon [Al-Qanun] of Medicine, published in 1025. He also recommended quarantine for patients with infectious diseases, especially [[tuberculosis]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Roy J. Shephard|title=An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World|page=279|publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ibn Sina – Ancient Hero of Modern Pandemics| date=31 May 2022| url=https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/05/31/ibn-sina-ancient-hero-of-modern-pandemics/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/15/what-can-avicenna-teach-us-in-time-of-coronavirus|title=What can Avicenna teach us in time of Coronavirus?|first=Hamid|last=Dabashi|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref>

Since the sixteenth century, the Ottoman empire has isolated travellers coming from epidemic areas during the Bubonic plague. A quarantine involved isolating healthy travellers for a period of time so that it could be ascertained if they were sick or not.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://muslimheritage.com/plague-and-contagion/|title=Plague and Contagion|date=24 August 2020}}</ref>

The mandatory quarantine of special groups of patients, including those with leprosy, started early in Islamic history.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Arthur Saniotis|title=Islamic Medicine and Evolutionary Medicine: A Comparative Analysis|quote="Islamic medicine heralded a disciplinary model which included quarantine, hospitals and systematic clinical training."|volume=44|issue=1|journal=Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America|year=2012|pages=44–1–8780|doi=10.5915/44-1-8780|pmid=23864992|pmc=3708639}}</ref> In the early 8th century the sixth [[Umayyad]] [[caliph]] [[Al-Walid I]] [[Leprosarium|segregated lepers]] from the general population, with some later sources crediting the caliph with opening a [[bimaristan|hospital]]. The separation of lepers from the general population was also practiced in the Moroccan city of Fez, where lepers were relocated to a cave system outside of the city. Dedicated leprosariums were built in the time of the Ottoman sultan [[Murad II]] in the 15th century, with some of the facilities operating for centuries.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Dunlop|first1=D.M.|last2=Colin|first2=G.S.|last3=Şehsuvaroǧlu|first3=Bedi N.|chapter=Bīmāristān|editor-first=P.|editor-last=Bearman|editor-first2=Th.|editor-last2=Bianquis|editor-first3=C.E.|editor-last3=Bosworth|editor-first4=E.|editor-last4=van Donzel|editor-first5=W.P.|editor-last5=Heinrichs|title=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|doi= 10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0123|date=24 April 2012}}</ref>