Did Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab Burn the Library of Alexandria?
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Citations:
[1] Hugh Kennedy, The Great Arab Conquests
[2] Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
[3] M. El-Abbadi, O. Fathallah, and I. Serageldin, What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?
[4] Eutychius of Alexandria, The Annals of Eutychius
[5] Phil Booth, Shades of Blues and Greens in the Chronicle of John of Nikiou
[6] Ibn al-Qifti, Ta'rikh al-Ḥukama
[7] Robert Wisnovsky, Encyclopedia of Islam (see under Yahya al-Nahwi)
[8] Uwe Michael Lang, John Philoponus and the Controversies Over Chalcedon in the Sixth Century
[9] Edward Gibbon, The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

Online Sources:
https://discover-the-truth.com/2017/0...
https://www.quora.com/Did-Caliph-Omar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library...
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Libr...

Translations of the primary sources:
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