The Abbasid House of Wisdom Between Myth and Reality

The Abbasid House of Wisdom: Between Myth and Reality
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032347457 | 109 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
This book places the palace library within the framework of the multifaceted cultural and scientific activities in the era of the caliphs, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun, generally regarded as the Golden Age of Islamic civilization. The author studies the first references to the House of Wisdom in European sources and shows how misconceptions arose because of incorrect translations of Arabic manuscripts and also because of how scholars overlooked the historical context of the library in ways that reflected their own cultural and national ambitions.