Bayt al-Hikma

Japanese: バイト・アルヒクマ(英語表記)Bayt al‐Ḥikma
Bayt al-Hikma
The name means "House of Wisdom" in Arabic, and is a research institute established in Baghdad in the 9th century by the Abbasid caliph Ma'mun. Its main purpose was to collect Greek books on philosophy and natural science and to translate them into Arabic. It inherited the traditions of the Sassanid school of Jundishapur, and its direct predecessor was the library called Khizāna al-Ḥikma (Treasury of Wisdom) during the time of Caliph Harun al-Rashid.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
〈知恵の館〉を意味するアラビア語で,9世紀にアッバース朝カリフ,マームーンによってバグダードに建設された研究機関。その主たる目的はギリシア語による哲学・自然科学の書物の収集と,それのアラビア語への翻訳であった。ササン朝時代のジュンディーシャープールの学院の伝統を受け継いだもので,カリフ,ハールーン・アッラシード時代の〈知恵の宝庫Khizāna al‐Ḥikma〉という図書館が直接の前身となっている。

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