section_path: Causes/Government sponsorship
section_name: Government sponsorship
paragraph_text: Government sponsorship
  
  The Islamic Empire heavily patronized scholars. The money spent on the Translation Movement for some translations is estimated to be equivalent to about twice the annual research budget of the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council. The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today. The House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid -era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur in 825 modeled after the academy of Jundishapur.