''Dar al-Hikma'' ( ar, دار الحكمة, 'House of Wisdom') was an underground publishing house, set up by the
Iraqi Communist Party
The Iraqi Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي العراقي '; ku, Partiya Komunista Iraqê حزبی شیوعی عێراق) is a communist party and the oldest active party in Iraq. Since its foundation in 1934, it has dominated the ...
in September 1945.
It published literature on politics, science, economy and culture.
It issues Arabic translations on
Friedrich Engels' ''
Origin of the Family'',
Maxim Gorky's ''
Mother'' and texts of
Stalin on
dialectics
Dialectic ( grc-gre, διαλεκτική, ''dialektikḗ''; related to dialogue; german: Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to ...
and
historical materialism. The main source for the literature published was English-language books brought from the
Soviet Union. Party members working with bookstores in
Baghdad and
Amarah enabled the sales of the books.
Dar al-Hikma was financed by contributions from party members, the party managed to gather 6,000
Iraqi dinars for the purpose.
Dar al-Hikma had a short life-span.
References
Defunct publishing companies
Iraqi Communist Party
1945 establishments in Iraq
Political book publishing companies
Iraq–Soviet Union relations
Publishing companies established in 1945
Companies with year of disestablishment missing
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