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House of Wisdom

library, translation institute and research center in medieval Baghdad
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House of Wisdom
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House of Wisdom

Summary

House of Wisdom is a library[1]. It ranks in the top 0.23% of library entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,104 views/month, #1 of 432).[2]

Key Facts

  • House of Wisdom is located in Round city of Baghdad[3].
  • House of Wisdom is in the country of Abbasid Caliphate[4].
  • House of Wisdom's image is recorded as Maqamat hariri.jpg[5].
  • House of Wisdom's instance of is recorded as library[6].
  • House of Wisdom's instance of is recorded as school[7].
  • House of Wisdom's instance of is recorded as institute[8].
  • House of Wisdom's instance of is recorded as former entity[9].
  • House of Wisdom's founder is recorded as Harun al-Rashid[10].
  • House of Wisdom's founder is recorded as al-Maʾmun[11].
  • House of Wisdom's movement is recorded as Translation Movement[12].
  • House of Wisdom's headquarters location is recorded as Round city of Baghdad[13].
  • House of Wisdom's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 305172271[14].
  • House of Wisdom's GND ID is recorded as 6049021-4[15].
  • House of Wisdom's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n00049031[16].
  • House of Wisdom's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 15821681c[17].
  • +0800-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of House of Wisdom[18].
  • House of Wisdom was dissolved in +1258-02-12T00:00:00Z[19].
  • House of Wisdom's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 33.3423, 'lon': 44.3836}[20].
  • House of Wisdom's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02501g[21].
  • House of Wisdom's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Bayt-al-Hikmah[22].
  • House of Wisdom's BBC Things ID is recorded as fb777c46-0301-46d9-9c0b-6bde72187928[23].
  • House of Wisdom's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'بَيْت الْحِكْمَة'}[24].
  • House of Wisdom's time period is recorded as Islamic Golden Age[25].
  • House of Wisdom's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as bayt-al-hikma[26].
  • House of Wisdom's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject History of Science[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Harun al-Rashid[10] and al-Maʾmun[11]. +0800-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of House of Wisdom[18].

Operations

House of Wisdom's headquarters location is recorded as Round city of Baghdad[13].

Dissolution

House of Wisdom was dissolved in +1258-02-12T00:00:00Z[19].

Why It Matters

House of Wisdom ranks in the top 0.23% of library entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,104 views/month, #1 of 432).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Abbasid Caliphate Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī Al-Kindi al-Maʾmun former entity Harun al-Rashid Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Thābit ibn Qurra

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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