In 1999, Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland wrote a wonderful children’s book "The House of Wisdom." The story is of a young boy, Ishaq, living in ninth-century Baghdad. Ishaq was initially bewildered by the vast number of scholars who came to the magnificent palace — the House of Wisdom — to read and study the huge number of manuscripts from all over the world that were housed there. In time, Ishaq began to understand the importance and wisdom [...]
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