The Abbasid house of wisdom between myth and reality / Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
Pubblicazione:
London : Routledge, 2023.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 93 p. ; 23 cm
Serie:
Routledge focus
Contiene:
Indice: Abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Baghdad and the rise of interest in foreign sciences 2. Creating a myth 3. Dissecting the myth 4. What to call a library in Arabic? 5. What was the Abbasid caliph's library called? 6. Was the house of science an arena for debates? 7. What was the reality? 8. What happened to the House of wisdom? 9. The impact 10. Concluding remarks. Bibliography. Index
