Neat. I wonder if its a similar story to paper. There’s a mythic story of how the Arabic army captured some Chinese soldier in the Battle of Talas in 793. Those prisoners showed their capturers paper making. Soon thereafter, there were paper mills set up in Bhagdad.
That story isn’t probably the origination of the practice in the Arabic empire. More likely it originated along the silk road a few decades earlier. However, I don’t think it led to paper mills in Bhagdad.
Neat. I wonder if its a similar story to paper. There’s a mythic story of how the Arabic army captured some Chinese soldier in the Battle of Talas in 793. Those prisoners showed their capturers paper making. Soon thereafter, there were paper mills set up in Bhagdad.
That story isn’t probably the origination of the practice in the Arabic empire. More likely it originated along the silk road a few decades earlier. However, I don’t think it led to paper mills in Bhagdad.