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 "id": "event/rashid-founds-khizanat-al-hikma",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "rashid-founds-khizanat-al-hikma",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرشيد يضع نواة خزانة الحكمة",
  "en": "Al-Rashid lays the nucleus of the House of Wisdom"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "وضع هارون الرشيد نواة خزانة الحكمة ببغداد، وولّى يوحنا بن ماسويه ترجمة الكتب الطبية القديمة ورتّب له كتاباً حذاقاً، وكان فيها الفضل بن نوبخت ينقل من الفارسية وعلان الشعوبي ينسخ {cite:duha-islam p. 79-81}.",
  "en": "Harun al-Rashid laid the nucleus of the Khizānat al-Ḥikma at Baghdad: Yūḥannā ibn Māsawayh set over the translation of the ancient medical books with skilled scribes, al-Faḍl ibn Nawbakht rendering Persian into Arabic and ʿAllān al-Shuʿūbī copying {cite:duha-islam p. 79-81}.",
  "ur": "ہارون الرشید نے بغداد میں خزانۃ الحکمہ کی بنیاد رکھی: یوحنا ابن ماسویہ قدیم طبی کتب کے ترجمے پر مامور، فضل ابن نوبخت فارسی سے ترجمہ کرتا اور علان شعوبی نقل کرتا {cite:duha-islam p. 79-81}."
 },
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "written for the Timeline Explorer House of Wisdom story from the cited sources",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
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  },
  "status": {
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