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Medieval scholars at Baghdad's grand library — The House of Wisdom — translated into Arabic the masterworks of Greek philosophy and mathematics, many of them lost in the west. Did Christian or Jewish scholars travel there to recapture their lost intellectual heritage?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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