 | Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) - 1886 - 422 pages
...according to the story generally believed, in cousequ. nee of the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar: " 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 destroyed." Accordingly, it is... | |
 | Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1886 - 414 pages
...the preservation of which would have lent glory to his reign and immortality to his moderation : " 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 destroyed." So the incomparable... | |
 | Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) - 1886 - 414 pages
...according to the story generally believed, in cousequ.nce of the fanatic decision of the Caliph Omar: " 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 destroyed." Accordingly, it is... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1888 - 662 pages
...refused to alienate the minutest object without the consent of the khalif ; and the answer of Omar, inspired by the ignorance of a fanatic, ' If these...with the Book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they, disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed,' " doomed them to... | |
 | Henry Nettleship - 1890 - 72 pages
...we should have accepted a dilemma like that attributed to the Mohammedan conqueror of Alexandria, " 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 destroyed." This feeling still... | |
 | Henry Nettleship - 1890 - 72 pages
...we should have accepted a dilemma like that attributed to the Mohammedan conqueror of Alexandria, " 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 destroyed." This feeling still... | |
 | 1890 - 506 pages
...the year in which the city was captured by the Saracens under Caliph Omar. The Caliph decreed that "if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they are useless and need notbe preserved; if they disagree, they ought to be destroyed. ' ' So the building was burned to the... | |
 | 1891 - 814 pages
...the year in which the city was captured by the Saracens under Caliph Omar. The Caliph decreed that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they ought to be destroyed." So the building was burned to the ground,... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...the year in which the city was captured by the Saracens under Caliph Omar. The Caliph decreed that " if these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they ought to be destroyed." So the building was burned to the ground,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...the year in which the city was captured by the Saracens under Caliph Omar. The Caliph decreed that Cambridge College wrote to his bookseller, " I received yours, and with it that pamphlet be preserved ; if they disagree, they ought to be destroyed." So the building was burned to the ground,... | |
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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 destroyed. 
