It was the House of Wisdom which attracted the best minds of the time and brought them under one roof. That's how the magic began. It all started from the House of Wisdom , also known as Bayt al-Hikma, which was founded by the fifth Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid in Baghdad in the 8th century. The place became a melting pot of knowledge with philosophers, thinkers and astronomers from different ...