Trying to write more but in shorter bursts so I actually finish things. Let’s try this.I’ve been fascinated by the House of Wisdom as a formative moment in creating and canonizing human knowledge for quite some time. While many people attribute leadership and progress in the sciences and the arts to the European Renaissance, much of our modern knowledge and methods actually come from the Islamic Golden Age. The House of Wisdom, also known as Bayt al-Hikmah, was created in the late eighth cent...