Abode of Learning
Where each worldview places it
The Shia secret society and university in Cairo, "the training ground for fanatics", running nine degrees for the "complete transformation of the mind". Its confusion technique threw pupils into doubt so that they leaned on the teacher[1].
- Aliases
- House of Wisdomassemblies of wisdom
- Answers to / controlled by
- the Fatimid Caliph, who sealed its lessons and funded it with 250,000 gold pieces yearly[1]
- Lineage
- Dates
- closed 1123 by the vizier al-Afdal[1]
- Places
- Cairo
- Key events
- 1058: an Ismaili member briefly controls Baghdad[1]
- Members / notable people
- Supreme Judge, army commander and court minister as teachers[1]
- Author's claims
- Its degrees end in "no belief, only action"[1].
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