In the ninth century, Baghdad was not the violent epicentre of a conflict between Western and Eastern ideologies it would become once Bush and Blair sent the troops to Iraq. It was, rather, the centre ...
Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq as-Sabbah al-Kindi was a man of many disciplines, born in Kufa, Iraq around 801 AD. He was raised in Basra and educated in Baghdad. There his scholarship brought him to the ...