Note 6 — PREFACE.
Ameen Fares Rihani translation
In 1010 A.D. he visited Baghdad, the centre of learning and intelligence and the capital of the Abbaside Khalifs, where he passed about two years and became acquainted with most of the literary men of the age.6 He attended the lectures and the readings of the leading doctors and grammarians, meeting with a civil reception at the hand of most of them.