Cover title. Single issue of Calliope: exploring world history (v. 10, no. 6, February 2000).

retold by F.M. Black.Judy Dodge Cummings -- None wiser than he / Karen E. Hong -- By land and air: all roads led to Baghdad's four gates / Gloria W. Lannom -- Life in the house of wisdom / Karima Diane Alavi -- Zubaidah: a power behind the throne / Sylvia Whitman -- A celebration fit for a Caliph / Sylvia Whitman -- After al-Ma'mum / Carolyn Gard -- From market town to cosmopolitan city / Susan Douglass -- The Caliph's palaces / Susan Douglass -- Iraqui art today / Wafaa' Salman -- Suq al-Warraqin / Susan Douglass -- The Arabian nights: the tale of the fisherman and the genie / retold by F.M. Black. Mary Morton Cowan. Images of life in Baghdad / Susan Douglass -- A royal weave: make a bookmark / Mary Morton Cowan.