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Iranian Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as caliph)
avg rating 3.58 — 26 ratings — published 1989
The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as caliph)
avg rating 3.66 — 185 ratings — published 2012
The Lion of Cairo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as caliph)
avg rating 3.79 — 457 ratings — published 2010
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as caliph)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,658 ratings — published 2009
The Voyages of Sindbad (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as caliph)
avg rating 3.59 — 352 ratings — published 1949
“They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.”
― Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
― Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics
