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House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom was a group of learned Arabic men - including Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khawarizmi, the Bana Musa brothers (Mohammed Jafar ibn Musa, Ahmad ibn Musa and al-Hasan ibn Musa), and Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Sabbah al-Kindi - to whom was entrusted the task of translating Greek manuscripts into Arabic.

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