House of Wisdom - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
House of Wisdom - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The House of Wisdom ( ), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. It was one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age, and was founded either as a library for the collections of the fifth Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid () in the late 8th century or as a private collection of the second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur () to house rare books and collections of poetry in the Arabic language. During the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun (), it was turned into a public academy and a library. ISBN 978-0521838245 Read more on Wikipedia
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