[Bayt al-hikmah and the cultural policy of the caliph al-Ma'mūn].
The Bayt al-hikmah, which begins to operate under this name during the kingdom of Hārūn al-Rasīd, develops especially under al-Ma'mūn. It was a library and one of the places in which the IX century translations were carried out. It does not seem to have been a development center of the Su'ūbiyyah, but it contributed to the discussions which took place before the proclamation of the mu'tazilite policy of al-Ma'mūn. It was one of the elements of a cultural integration in the Moslem world, and it reached mathematicians and astrologers more than doctors, because of their strong tie with Christian traditions.
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Bayt al-hikmah et politique culturelle du calife al-Ma'mūn.