The House of Wisdom in Baghdad and the Sages of the Middle East
In the summer of 762 the second Abbasid ruler, Abu Jafar al-Mansur, chose a site on the west bank of the Tigris, close to…
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Compass and Straightedge in the Origins of Arabic Geometry
Geometry in the medieval Middle East was neither a simple copy of Greek learning nor an invention out of nothing. Between the eighth and…
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