How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science

B ayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa brothers, sons of an astronomer in Baghdad, created the first machine with a stored program there and scientific textbooks from the institute were translated and made their way to Europe.

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