Baghdad: City of Scholars

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1. An outstanding video clip:

   “One of the first and greatest research centres, the Bayt al-Hikmah established in Baghdad in 830, led Islam in translating philosophical and scientific works from Greek, Roman, Persian and Indian classics. By the art of translation, learning was assimilated from other civilizations”(Aga Khan IV, Aga Khan University, 16 March 1983, Karachi, Pakistan)

   “It is no exaggeration to say that the original Christian universities of Latin West, at Paris, Bologna and Oxford, indeed the whole European renaissance, received a vital influx of new knowledge from Islam — an influx from which the later western colleges and universities, including those of North Africa, were to benefit in turn”(Aga Khan IV, 16 March 1983, Aga Khan UNiversity, Karachi, Pakistan)

   “The truth, as the famous Islamic scholars repeatedly told their students, is that the spirit of disciplined, objective enquiry is the property of no single culture, but of all humanity. To quote the great physician and philosopher, Ibn Sina: “My profession is to be forever journeying, to travel about the universe so that I may know all its conditions.” “(Aga Khan IV, Aga Khan University, 16 March 1983, Karachi, Pakistan)

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