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BrotherClark
Öh, nej? När skulle det ha inträffat tänker du?
Så här beskriver den Muslimska guldåldern händelsen;
"Arabic sources on the Arab conquest
In 642 AD, Alexandria was captured by an Arab army under the command of Amr ibn al-As. Several later Arabic sources describe the library's destruction by the order of Caliph Umar.[97] The earliest was al-Qifti who described the story in a biographical dictionary History of Learned Men, written before 1248.[98] Bar-Hebraeus, writing in the thirteenth century, quotes Umar as saying to Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī (John Philoponus): "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them." So, Ibn al Qifti recounts, the general ordered that the books be burned to fuel the fires that heated Alexandria's city baths. It is said that they were enough to provide heating for six months.[99]"
Man kan ju tänka sig att den muslimska guldålderns nedskrivna information om händelsen de själva utförde, efter erövringen är mer tillförlitlig än den ett gäng islamofila vänsterliberala nutida historiker fabulerat ihop av rent önsketänkande..