WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Muslim scholars in Baghdad and Cordoba translated which type of ancient writings into Arabic?
A
Greek and Latin
B
Greek and French
C
Latin and Spanish
D
Latin and German
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Islamic scholars translated their writings from Syriac, Greek, and Sanskrit into Arabic and then produced new medical knowledge based on those texts.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Muslim conquerors eventually came into possession of various Greek and Roman manuscripts. Rather than destroy these works, Muslim scholars carefully preserved them, translating them into Arabic, studying them, and in some cases building on ideas set down by the ancient writers in their own works.

Detailed explanation-3: -As a result, he established a library, the House of Wisdom, in Baghdad where scholars and students could study new material, formulate new ideas, transcribe literature of their own, and translate various works from around the world into the Arabic language.

Detailed explanation-4: -The House of Wisdom (Arabic: , romanized: Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, refers to either a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad or to a large private library belonging to the Abbasid caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of the largest episodes of such transfer took place between the eighth and the eleventh centuries during the Abbasid Caliphate. Four sources of scientific knowledge were brought into the Arabic language: Greek (Byzantium), Syriac (Eastern Christian cities), Pahlavia (Persia), and Sanskrit (India).

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