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"These men were some of those who took extreme pains to study the ancient sciences, for the sake of which they gave generously what was required, taxing themselves with fatigue. They dispatched to the Byzantine country men who sent scientific manuscripts back to them.

They hired translators from various districts and kept them in attendance for many years, so that they brought to light wonders of learning. The sciences in which they were most interested were geometry, mechanics, dynamics, music and astronomy."

Muslim scholar Ibn al-Nadim’s description of a group who

studied in Baghdad during the Abbasid era, ca. 980

1. The scientific and mathematical learning that flourished during the Abbasid Caliphate was aided by

a) the translat