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...
In ancient Baghdad, the greatest translator was Hunayn Ibn-Ishaq, a physician who translated all of Galen’s medical works and most of Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates.
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