Works at the House of Wisdom
· House of Wisdom, Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0) · file Around 820, al-Khwarizmi worked at Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, the Abbasid scholarly and library milieu associated with Caliph al-Ma'mun. This is the clearest dated evidence for his professional presence in Baghdad. The date is approximate. The medieval House of Wisdom’s exact site is not securely identified, so the coordinates represent Baghdad.
