Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Baghdad and the Rise of Interest in Foreign Sciences -- A Revisiting the Abbasid House of Wisdom -- B Short Note on the Proposed Origins of the House of Wisdom -- PART II: Creating A Myth -- PART III: Dissecting the Myth -- A Bayt al-Hikma and Translation Movement -- B Bayt al-Hikma as a University -- PART IV: What to Call a Library in Arabic? -- PART V: What Was the Abbasid Caliph's Library Called? -- PART VI: Was the House of Science an Arena for Debates?
PART VII: What Was the Reality? -- A The Origin of Book Collections -- B Patronage Associated with the Library -- C The Library and Greek Books -- D Abbasid Caliphal Library and Persian Royal Libraries -- PART VIII: What Happened to the House of Wisdom? -- PART IX: The Impact -- PART X: Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index
