Episode 55: Great Arabic Libraries

Violet Moller. 2019. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found. A History in Seven Cities. 

Rahim Kaviani, Nafiseh Salehi, Ahmad Zaki Berahim Ibrahim, Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor, Faisal Ahmad Faisal Abdul Hamid, Norhayati Hj Hamzah and Abdullah Yusof. 2012. The Significance of the Bayt Al-Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Early Abbasid Caliphate (132A.H-218A.H). Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 11 (9), 1272-1277

Jim Al-Khalili. 2010. ‘When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world’ The Guardian 26/10/2010. https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Aydin/Teach/Fall18/128/1WhenBaghdadWas.pdf

Jonathan Lyons. 2009. The House of Wisdom: How Arab Learning Transformed Western Civilization. 

Tayeb El Hibri ‘The Empire in Iraq’ in Chase F. Robinson (ed). The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 1: The Formation of the Islamic World Sixth to Eleventh Centuries, 269-304.

Tayeb El Hibri. 2021. The Abbasid Caliphate: A History.