 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...gave for this act is worth preserving :•— c If these writings/ he said, ¿ agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.7 By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia,... | |
 | 1856 - 986 pages
...obedience to the well known dictum of the Caliph Omar, that " if the books agree with the book of tiod, they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they ore M?rnicious and ought to be destroyed:" a story, however, which ests on no very valid foundation,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 824 pages
...he gave for this act is worth preserving :—' If these writings,' he said, ( agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.' By himself and his generals this ferocious conqueror added Syria, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia, Chaldea,... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 902 pages
...Library should be destroyed, in the famous words: ' If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they disagree they are pernicious and ought to be distroyed." ' The sentence was executed with blind obedience. The volumes of paper or parchment were... | |
 | 1859 - 588 pages
...destroyed by this fanatic, on the famous plea, that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they arc pernicious, and ought to be destroyed," was probably a library of comparatively modern formation.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 pages
...destroyed by this fanatic, on the famous plea, that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." was probably a library of comparatively modern formation. This, however is an obscure subject, the... | |
 | John George Sheppard - 1861 - 830 pages
...Amrou had applied for instructions. " If the Greek writings," said the fanatic and logical Khalif, " agree with the Book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they do not agree with it, they are mischievous, and ought to be destroyed." But the story is suspicious... | |
 | John George Sheppard - 1861 - 822 pages
...Amrou had applied for instructions. " If the Greek writings," said the fanatic and logical Khalif, " agree with the Book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they do not agree with it, they are mischievous, and ought to be destroyed." But the story is suspicious... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1865 - 296 pages
...to the flames, with tbe sapient remark, — " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran, they are useless, and need not be preserved. If they...disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." So says the Church of Home, when erecting a funeral pile for the learning, the arts, and the genius... | |
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If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed. 
