 | Frederick Tice - 1922 - 658 стор.
...requested by his general, Amrou, to spare the library of Alexandria, issued the following order : "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." It is doubtful whether the Caliph ever made such a ruling, but it would tally... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 стор.
...months, and of the celebrated dilemma with which he rejected the request for its preservation : " If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran,...preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed." Gibbon strove hard to disprove the story, but without success. This wa& not... | |
 | 1920 - 618 стор.
...— to have destroyed in 640 AD because "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the books of God, they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." Here the wonderful reliefs (frontispiece) representing the fight of the gods... | |
 | Michael H. Abraham D'Assemani - 1944 - 284 стор.
...the library be distributed to be burned. His reason was stated thus: "If these writings agree with Al Koran, they are useless and need not be preserved. If they disagree, they are pernicious and should be destroyed." Thus was intellectual progress checked among the Arabs and the Ottoman subjects.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1962 - 598 стор.
...spare the famous l1brary, Omar 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 ought to be destroyed." "The sentence was executed," Gibbon continues, repeating a legend of which... | |
 | George Allan - 1990 - 344 стор.
...about the library at conquered 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." Useless or pernicious, irrelevant to our new freedom or else its enemy: in... | |
 | Neil A. Porter - 1998 - 306 стор.
...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 that the volumes kept the four thousand baths of the... | |
 | Andre Bernard, Clifton Fadiman - 2000 - 808 стор.
...antiquity. 'Omar replied, "If the writings of the Greeks agree with the Koran they are superfluous and need not be preserved; if they disagree they are pernicious, and ought not to be preserved." 'Amr therefore ordered the irreplaceable manuscripts to be used to fuel... | |
 | E. A. Wallis Budge - 2001 - 344 стор.
...inspired by the ignorance of 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 sentence was executed with blind obedience : the volumes of paper or parchment... | |
 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair - 2002 - 358 стор.
...instructive. Omar is said to have observed: "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God (Al Koran), they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed." No reasoning, I imagine, could be more flawless or more illustrative of the... | |
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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. 
