A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden ...

And Baghdad is right at the centre of it all ... but they’re working on the riddle too. And of course the House of Wisdom won’t let me in. I’m going to be a servant forever.

They include innovations in jewellery: Al-Khwārizmī, the Persian mathematician, astronomer, geographer and scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad with his a decimal counting system set to ...