House of Wisdom In ancient Baghdad, the scholar known as Caliph Mamoun founded the “Beit al-Hikamah” (House of Wisdom), an academy, library, museum, observatory and translation center in...
Ibn-Rushd was born in Cordoba in 1126, an Aristotelian philosopher, astronomer and court physician, he dominated European thought from the twelfth to the end of the sixteenth centuries.