Who burned the Library of Alexandria?
• An eHistory article The burning of the library of Alexandria by Preston Chesser. It does not try to reach a conclusion on who really did it, but list all of those who were blamed by one party or another for doing it. • The Wikipedia entry on the Library of Alexandria has a discussion on the topic. • An article by Bernard Lewis in the New York Review of Books. He absolves Omar and Amr from doing so, and tries to give an explanation as to why the myth was started. • History of the Library of Alexandria from the Catholic Encyclopedia. They discredit the story of Arabs burning it, and list the evidence against that. • An extensive discussion in Arabic with a lot of details from various sides of the issue. • Another brief article in Arabic on the issue. • An article by Ellen Brundige on the Decline of the Library of Alexandria in the Christian era.
