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the four before 1500
four, not two
not among the four
not the four named
the House of Wisdom gathered translators
learning, not hunting
learning, not wars
learning, not stone
its great mosque and libraries dazzled the West
learning, not gold
learning, not ships
libraries, not mountains
it led trade and learning from Egypt
a centre, not small
a learning centre, not war port
a centre, not a border town
it linked gold and books across the Sahara
desert, not sea
desert, not mountains
desert, not forests
Sankore was its scholarly school
al-Azhar is Cairo's
the House of Wisdom is Baghdad's
the Nizamiyya was eastern
al-Azhar is its mosque and school
Sankore is in Timbuktu
the House of Wisdom is in Baghdad
the Umayyad is in Damascus
before 1500 they became beacons
1500 is the bound, not 1000
before, not after
1500 is the bound
all bound trade to learning and coexistence
a civilisation, not just language
not one ruler
separate cities, not one state
ways of binding trade, learning, living together
civilisation, not wars
binding, not isolation
learning and trade, not simplicity
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