The Gulf’s rulers want to do better than that in future. Keen to diversify their economies away from fossil fuels, the ...

Pupils are introduced to traditional male and female attire and fashion accessories as a merchant and his wife prepare to take up a prestigious invitation to the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

And Baghdad is right at the centre of it all ... but they’re working on the riddle too. And of course the House of Wisdom won’t let me in. I’m going to be a servant forever.

Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, emerged in the ninth century – even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa ...