Adam Zeidan
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
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Adam Zeidan is an Assistant Managing Editor, having joined Encyclopædia Britannica in 2018. He covers a range of topics related primarily to the Middle East and North Africa.
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Bayt al-Hikmah, royal library maintained by the Abbasid caliphs during their reign in Baghdad. The foundation of Bayt al-Hikmah coincided with the rise of Baghdad as the capital of the Islamic world and the subsequent reception of Persian culture into the Arab court of the Abbasids. The site of…
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