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in Baghdad, the Abbasid capital
Cairo held the Fatimid house
Damascus was the Umayyad capital
Cordoba was in al-Andalus, not Baghdad
it flourished in the ninth century CE
the fifteenth century is later
the fifth century predates Islam
the twentieth is far later
al-Ma'mun is famed for backing learning and translation
Abd al-Malik was an earlier Umayyad
Harun began it but al-Ma'mun is the famed patron
al-Mu'tasim came after al-Ma'mun
Greek, Persian and Indian books were rendered into Arabic
not talk alone but translation and work
a house of learning, not a market
not meetings but scholarly work
al-Khwarizmi worked there on algebra
Ibn Sina came two centuries later
Ibn Battuta was a traveller, not a scholar there
Ibn Khaldun came centuries later
a wave carrying Greek, Persian and Indian books
not poetry but sciences
not copying but translating
not sending out but bringing in
it kept Greek learning and advanced it in Arabic
it did not destroy; it preserved and advanced
it did not ban; it sponsored learning
not copying but translating sciences
the Mongols destroyed it with Baghdad in 1258
it did not survive; it was destroyed
it was destroyed, not converted
it perished, did not move
star-watching in Baghdad and Damascus
not the Vatican but the Islamic one
no telescope; ancient observation
an observatory was part of its science
it carried nations' learning and influenced Europe
not the building but the learning
not longest but its influence
not first map but scholarly influence
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