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Bayt al-Hikmah, (Arabic: “House of Wisdom”) also called Khizānat al-Ḥikmah (Arabic: “Treasury of Wisdom”), royal library maintained by the Abbasid caliphs during their reign in Baghdad. The foundation of Bayt al-Hikmah coincided with the rise of Baghdad as the capital of the Islamic world and the subsequent reception of Persian culture into the Arab court of the Abbasids. The site of Baghdad was chosen by the second Abbasid caliph, al-Manṣūr (reigned 754–775), to replace Damascus, whose status as the Umayyad capital had made it difficult for the new dynasty to fully uproot the one that it had overthrown in 750
It was here that many great works from Persia, China, India and Greece were collected and translated into Arabic, including works by Aristotle and Euclid.This culturally and linguistically diverse environment gave rise to innovations that would have lasting legacies in fields including algebra, geography, astronomy, medicine and engineering.Automata with talent During its tenure of some three-and-a-half centuries, the House of Wisdom was populated by a number of multitalented thinkers.Among these were the Banu Musa brothers three ninth-century Persian scholars who lived in Baghdad.