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Professor Dr Serif Ali Tekalan, Turkey

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Best Practices from History<br />

International HEI, Beyt al Hikmah<br />

• Beyt al Hikmah; House of Wisdom<br />

• Founded by Caliph Harun al-Rashid in the 8th century.<br />

• Established as Translation center and became research<br />

center.<br />

• The works of Aristotle, Plato , Hippocrates, Euclid, and<br />

Pythagoras were studied.<br />

• Greek, Indian, and Persian texts are translated.<br />

• Had a Christian Scholar as a head of translation<br />

activities.<br />

• It was an international curriculum, international<br />

approach, and international institutions.

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