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Episode 5: The Caliphate
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
The House of Wisdom
The house of wisdom would not have been a research lap where greek books were stored, translated and researched. The arabs didn't translate the histories of herodosus and thecidides. It's hard to imagine the caliphs finding much to agree with in pericle's funeral oration. Unflattering portraits of the tyrannical and imperialist persian kings beaten by the freedom loving greek under dogs might both have offended persians.
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