ABSTRACT
The House of Wisdom in Baghdad was a library and translation institute established in 815 by the Abbasid caliph Al-Ma’mum (reigned from 813 to 833). From the 9th to the middle of the 13th century, it was considered a major intellectual center where both Islamic and non-Islamic scholars worked together on all areas of knowledge. Many classic works were translated into Arabic, and later, in turn, into Hebrew and Latin. During this period the Abbasid caliphate gathered knowledge from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, Persia, North Africa, and Byzantine [4]. However, the House of Wisdom and other scholarly institutes in Baghdad were destroyed during the Mongol invasion of 1258.
