 | Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pages
...who captures Alexandria asks the Syrian Caliph Omar what are his wishes for the remaining libraries. "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God," replies the Caliph, "they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious... | |
 | 1902 - 840 pages
...this immense library, 320 BC, until it was consumed, AD 640, by the foolish answer of Caliph Omar to a fanatic. "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." The principal reason... | |
 | Sir James Hopwood Jeans - 1951 - 412 pages
...great library. The Caliph Omar is said to have justified this final act of vandalism on the ground 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 are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed'. Abulpharagius records... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1906 - 708 pages
...conqueror felt constrained to consult the Caliph, and that the Caliph made the well-known reply : — ' 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 '. It is added that... | |
 | 1915 - 484 pages
...conqueror felt constrained to consult the Caliph, and that the Caliph made the well-known reply : — ' 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'. It is added that the... | |
 | 1896 - 1044 pages
...Philoponus, besought the conqueror to spare the great library. The reputed answer of Omar is well known : " 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." Some have affected... | |
 | 740 pages
...conqueror felt constrained to consult the Caliph, and that the Caliph made the well-known reply : — ' 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'. It is added that the... | |
 | Abdallah Nacereddine - 2008 - 672 pages
...the manuscripts of the library; Amr wrote to Omar for permission; the Caliph, we are told, replied: "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 should be destroyed"; legend shortens this probably... | |
 | New-Hampshire Medical Society - 1902 - 344 pages
...this immense Iibrary32o BC, until it was consumed, AD 640, by the foolish answer of Caliph Omar to a fanatic : "If these writings of the Greeks agree -with the book of God, thev are useless, and need not o J be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to... | |
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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. 
