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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:53:38 +0530

“In the beginning, there was neither existence nor non-existence…”

Rig Veda, Nasadiya Sukta

8th Century AD

By the 8th century, the rapidly expanding Islamic caliphates stretched across vast territories, from Central Asia in the east to the Iberian Peninsula in the west. The Indian subcontinent too had begun witnessing centuries of invasions, conflicts and political upheavals.

Baghdad, the heart of the Abbasid world and a great cultural crossroads, flourished with enormous wealth and an equally enormous thirst for knowledge. In the House of Wisdom, scholars translated, studied and debated Indian mathematics, Sanskrit texts, Persian knowledge and Greek philosophy, including the works of Aristotle.

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8th Century AD