A scholarly movement in which translators translated books of science and wisdom from world languages into Arabic to share knowledge.
Reading at your level · Concept
The Abbasid Translation Movement
A grown-up reads you the short text; the longer one you read yourself.
A major scholarly initiative that flourished in the Abbasid era, particularly at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad under caliphs like Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun. Scholars and translators of diverse backgrounds collaborated to translate foundational texts in medicine, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and philosophy into Arabic, sparking groundbreaking discoveries.
These links leave the kids' wing for the big museum
For grown-ups
The leveled texts are written from the same record in the big museum at three levels and follow the kids' content rules; the Scholars level does not appear here.