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The Endowment of Dar al-Ilm in al-Karkh

وقف دار العلم بالكرخ

c. 992 CE · 382 AH

In 382 the vizier Abu Nasr Sabur ibn Ardashir bought a house in al-Karkh, rebuilt it as the Dar al-Ilm, endowed it upon the scholars and endowed with it many books 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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98099010001010 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

Overview

In 382 AH the vizier Abu Nasr Sabur ibn Ardashir bought a house in al-Karkh in Baghdad, built it up and named it the House of Knowledge. He then endowed it for the scholars and placed many books in it as an endowment. 1

Note

This account comes from al-Suyuti's "Tarikh al-Khulafa" alone. The Gregorian year (around 992 CE) is derived by conversion. The date needs an additional source.

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Had participant
سابور بن أزدشير الوزير

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Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)· Shapur's siege of al-Hadra· سابور بن أزدشير الوزير

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 635
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Dar al-'Ilm of Baghdad (Sabur's library)

A house of learning founded by Abu Nasr Sabur ibn Ardashir, vizier of Baha' al-Dawla. In 381 he bought a house between the two walls, brought into it books of every discipline, more than ten thousand volumes, and endowed it for students of knowledge. It stood for about seventy years, until it burned when Tughril Beg entered Baghdad in 450.