Also, House of Wisdom (Arabic: دار الحكمة , romanized: Dār al-Ḥikmah) or House of Knowledge (دار العلم Dār al-‘Ilm) was an ancient university of the Fatimid Caliphate (today's Egypt), built in 1004 CE as a library and converted by the Fatimid Imam-Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah to a state university in the same year.
Philippe Bourgois (born 1956) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1998-2003) and was the Richard Perry University Professor ...