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-Sina (980-1037) wrote the famous medical encyclopedia “Canun” which described every known disease, both physical and mental, and every method of treatment evaluating 760 drugs in use at the time.
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