House of Knowledge
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- This article is about the ancient university in Egypt.
- For the ancient Abbasid Library , see Bait Al-Hekma.
- For the Saudi Arabian College , see Dar Al-Hekma College.
The House of Knowledge (Arabic: دار الحكمة, Dar Al-Hekma) was an ancient university in the Fatimid Caliphate (today's Egypt), built in 1004 as a library until the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah converted it to a university for the state in the same year.
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