The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.47

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c13.s6.47

Under Harun-Alrashid (786-808) the ministers, belonging as they did to the Barmak family, were Buddhists converted to Islam. It was under their auspices that Hindu scholars were invited to Bagdad and Sanskrit works on medicine, pharmacology, toxicology, philosophy, astrology and other subjects were translated into Arabic.

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