Baghdad, Iraq
Baghdad
Founded in 762 as the Abbasid capital and, for the next two centuries, the engine room of the translation movement. Caliphs, viziers and private families paid for Greek, Syriac, Sanskrit and Persian books to be turned into Arabic at rates no city had ever sustained.
Composed here
- c. 813–833 Algebra
- c. 1093–1094 Aims of the Philosophers
Crossings made here
- c. 771–775 Brahmasphutasiddhanta , Sanskrit Arabic · al-Fazari, Yaqub ibn Tariq probable
- c. 782 Topics , Syriac Arabic · Timothy I, Abu Nuh al-Anbari attested
- c. 786–805 Elements , Greek Arabic · al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar attested
- c. 813–833 Elements , Arabic Arabic · al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar attested
- c. 820 Brahmasphutasiddhanta , Arabic Arabic attested
- 827–828 Almagest , Greek Arabic · al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar attested
- c. 833–842 Enneads , Greek Arabic · Ibn Na'ima al-Himsi, al-Kindi attested
- c. 840–873 On Simple Drugs , Syriac Syriac · Hunayn ibn Ishaq attested
- c. 840–873 Aphorisms , Greek Arabic · Hunayn ibn Ishaq attested
- c. 845–875 On Simple Drugs , Syriac Arabic · Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Hubaysh ibn al-Hasan probable
- c. 847–861 De Materia Medica , Greek Arabic · Istifan ibn Basil, Hunayn ibn Ishaq attested
- c. 870–900 On the Soul , Greek Arabic · Ishaq ibn Hunayn attested
- c. 870–910 Nicomachean Ethics , Greek Arabic · Ishaq ibn Hunayn, Ustath probable
- c. 875–900 Elements , Greek Arabic · Ishaq ibn Hunayn attested
- c. 879–890 Almagest , Greek Arabic · Ishaq ibn Hunayn attested
- c. 880–901 Elements , Arabic Arabic · Thabit ibn Qurra attested
- c. 890–901 Almagest , Arabic Arabic · Thabit ibn Qurra attested