The House of Wisdom - THE TRUE STORY OF ISHAQ (Engels)

The house of wisdom - the true story of ishaq (engels)
7 - 9 years
new bounded hardcover
48 pages
1999

author: Florence Parry Heide
co-author: Judith Heide Gillil
and illustrated by Mary Grandpré

From time to time, as the world turns, something different happens, something mysterious and astonishing. Ideas brush against one another and sparks fly! It can happen anywhere, anytime. It happened in baghdad a 1000 years ago.
This is the true story of Ishaq, a young boy in ninth-century Baghdad. And it is the story of the house of wisdom. More than a house, more than a library, more even than a palace, the house of wisdom was at the very centre of the new ideas that flourished in Baghdad. Here thousands of scholars from all over the world came to read, to exchange ideas and to translate the dusty manuscripts that came to them by camel and by sea.how could ancient words, words from faraway places and times, mean so much and cause so much excitement?
Ishaq wondered. Lyrical prose and glorious illustrations capture the splendour of Baghdad when it was the centre of one of the world's great civilizations. Join one boy in his quest to discover and understand the power of words to ignite our imaginations and to connect us, frome one far away time and place to another.

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