بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
It has been alleged that this library was burned down by Amr bin Aas at the behest of the Second Caliph, Umar. The story goes to state that Amr fed the numerous bath furnaces of the city with the volumes of the Alexandrian library. The story also relates the oft-quoted remark allegedly made by Caliph Umar (ruled: 634-644) when he consented to the destruction of the library, "If these writing 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 was, the story continues, thereupon, decided that the books were contrary to the Quran and the whole library was burned down without even opening the books.
Encyclopedia Britanica says that the Alexandrian Library had, in fact, been destroyed much earlier, in the fourth century A.D, long before the advent of Islam: "The library survived the disintegration of Alexander’s empire (first century BC) and continued to exist under Roman rule until the third century AD."3 The truth is that one half of this library was burnt by Julius Caesar in 47 BC. In the third century, Alexandria came under the domination of Christians. At another place the same work states that, "The main museum and library were destroyed during the civil war of the third century AD and a subsidiary library was burned by Christians in AD 391."4
الترجمة :
تقول الموسوعة البريطانية ان المكتبة قد احرقت قبل ذلك بكثير ، في القرن الرابع قبل ظهور الإسلام .
Bernard Lewis, a vehement critic of Islam, has thus summarised the verdict of modern scholarship on the subject: "Modern research has shown the story to be completely unfounded. None of the early chronicles, not even the Christian ones, make any reference to this tale, which is mentioned in the 13th century, and in any case the great library of Serapenum had already been destroyed in internal dissensions before the coming of the Arabs."6
الترجمة
بيرنارد لويس وهو من اكبر منتقدي الاسلام قد لخض الدراسات الحديث حول هذا الموضوع : " لقد اثبتت البحوث الحديثة أن هذه القصة عارية تماماً من الصحة ... وقد دمرت هذه المكتبة في خلافات داخلية قبل مجيء العرب .
Lewis wrote the above words in 1950. As late as in 1990, he went on to state, "not the creation, but the demolition of the myth was achievement of European scholarship, which from the 18th century to the present day has rejected the story as false and absurd, and thus exonerated the Caliph Umar and the early Muslims from this libel."7
John M. Robertson, a historian of rationalistic and free thought, also dismissed the story of the destruction of the Alexandrian library by Umar as a myth.8
جون ام روبرتسون مؤرخ تاريخي رفض فكرة تدمير المكتبة على يد الخليفة عمرو بن العاص
Colin Wilson, a popular science writer and researcher expressed his firm opinion that the demolition of the Alexandrian library was caused by Christian clergy. He writes, "The Library of Alexandria — which contained, among other things, Aristotle’s own collection of books — was burned down on the orders of the Archbishop of Alexandria (backed by the Emperor Theodosius). Knowledge was evil; had not Adam been evicted from Paradise for wanting to know?"1
كولن ويلسون كاتب وباحث مشهور يرى ان السبب في هدم المكتبة هو رجال الدين المسيحي فقد كتب : " مكتبة الاسكندرية - التي تتضمن مجموعة من كتب ارسطو الخاصة - احرقت بناءا على اوامر لرئيس اساقفة الاسكندرية
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