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	Al-fadl ibn Naubakht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Al-fadl ibn Naubakht, (also written Nowbakht), was an 8th century Persian scholar at the court of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
		He was son of the famous Naubakht, a former Zoroastrian, who had designed Baghdad.
		Fadl was appointed by the Caliph as chief librarian of the Khizānat al-Hikmah (The Treasury of Knowledge), which later came to be known as The House of Wisdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-fadl_ibn_Naubakht (140 words)

	LIBRARIESThe human tendency of preserving the records of their achievements in various fields of life is very primitive ...
		Soon, however, Muslims who distinguished themselves as the greatest patrons of learning, established during the days of their glory some of the biggest libraries of mediaeval times.
		The great intellectuals of their age including Avicenna the encyclopaedist, Ibn Miskawayh the historian-philosopher, Al-Fadl-Ibn Naubakht and Humayun Ibn Ishaq the renowned translator were entrusted with the responsibility for the organisation and maintenance of libraries.
		Harun-ar-Rashid who had founded a big library at Baghdad had appointed Al-Fadl Ibn Naubakht, a renowned scholar and translator, as head of his library, The library contained a large number of books, which were efficiently arranged and catalogued.
	members.tripod.com /~salems2/libraries.htm (3041 words)

	New Page 74
		The plans of the town were drawn up under the direction of the celebrated minister Khalid b.
		Barmark,m by the astromer Naubakht, a Persian, and by Masha’ allah, a Jew.
		In 154 (770) an astromer, Ya‘qubal-Fazari, presented at the court of al-Mansur a learned Hindu named Manka who introduced the Sindhind (Siddhanta), a treatise on astronomy according to Hindu methods.
	www.islam4all.com /new_page_74.htm (6383 words)

	Baghdad - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The roundness of course points to the fact that it was based on Persian precedents such as Firouzabad in Persia.
		In fact, it is now known that the two designers who were hired by al-Mansur to plan the city's design were Naubakht, a former Persian Zoroastrian, and Mashallah, a former Jew from Khorasan, Iran.
		Within a generation of its founding, Baghdad become a hub of learning and commerce.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4492 (1650 words)

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		The family of Naubakht, mentioned next, represents a group of scholars mentioned separately in the Fihrist.[1] The head of the Naubakhts, was an astronomer to the Khalif Mansur and his son Abu Sahl succeeded to his father's occupation.
		Persian literary tradition is earliest recognised in the astronomical works of the grandsons of Naubakht.
		In this group are mentioned a number of writers who composed works on these sciences, beginning with Euclid and ending with the contemporary authors of an-Nadhin.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/2/9/1/12918/12918-8.txt (16633 words)

	Baghdad, Iraq
		The roundness points to the fact that it was based on Persian precedents such as Firouzabad in Persia.
		The two designers who were hired by al-Mansur to plan the city's design were Naubakht, a former Persian Zoroastrian who also determined that the date of the foundation of the city would be astrologically auspicious, and Mashallah, a former Jew from Khorasan, Iran.
		Within a generation of its founding, Baghdad became a hub of learning and commerce.
	www.creekin.net /c4435-n88-baghdad-iraq.html (1626 words)

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