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The House of Wisdom existed as a part of the major Translation Movement taking place during the Abbasid Era, translating works from Greek and Syriac to Arabic, but it is unlikely that the House of Wisdom existed as the sole center of such work, as major translation efforts arose in Cairo and Damascus even earlier than the proposed establishment of the House of Wisdom. [9]
Baghdad Medical City in 2017. Baghdad Medical City (مدينة الطب) formerly known as Saddam Medical City from 1983–2003 and before that known as Medical City Teaching Hospital from 1973–1983 is a complex of several teaching hospitals in Bab Al-Moatham, Baghdad, Iraq. The complex stands where the former Garden of Ridván of Baghdad was.
The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the movement translated from many languages into Arabic, including Pahlavi , Sanskrit , Syriac , and Greek , it is often referred to as the Graeco-Arabic translation movement because it was predominantly focused on translating ...
The Al-'Adudi Hospital was established during the era of organized hospitals developed in medieval Islamic culture. [1] Some of these early hospitals were located in Baghdad and among those was the bimaristan Al-'Adudi. [2] The hospital came to be when King of the Buyid Dynasty, 'Adud al-Dawla, decided to construct the hospital a few years ...
Christian influences in Islam can be traced back to Eastern Christianity, which surrounded the origins of Islam. [1] Islam, emerging in the context of the Middle East that was largely Christian, was first seen as a Christological heresy known as the "heresy of the Ishmaelites", described as such in Concerning Heresy by Saint John of Damascus, a Syriac scholar.
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Baghdad [note 1] (Arabic: بغداد, Baghdād) is the capital and largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab World and forms 22% of the country's population.
The shattering of a childhood dream is symbolic of the cruelly contorted fate of a nation in “Baghdad Messi.” Kurdish-Belgian filmmaker Sahim Omar Kalifa has expanded his much-acclaimed 2012 ...