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Libraries In the ancient Arabic city of Cordoba there were seventy libraries--one continuing over four-hundred-thousand books.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
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 830 A.D.
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