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Day: April 17, 2015

Breaking things for spite, north of Baldock

April 17, 2015

Ordering the library at Alexandria put to the torch in 642, Amr ibn al-‘As is supposed to have said that whatever was in it that agreed with the Quran was superfluous, whatever disagreed with the Quran, impious. The story is not true (the library had been burned several times before, and Amr was an ‘As, … More Breaking things for spite, north of Baldock

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