A group of the wicked among the Tatars went to do an atrocious crime, i.e. to ruin the great library of Baghdad, the grandest library on the surface of earth at that time. It was the house that contained the fruit of Muslim thought along more than 600 years. It gathered all branches of science, literature and art, including religious sciences, e.g. the Tafseer of the Quran, Hadeeth, jurisprudence, creed and ethics; worldly sciences e.g. medicine, astronomy, engineering, chemistry, physics, geography, earth sciences; and human sciences e.g. politics, economics, sociology, literature, history, philosophy, and others; not to mention millions of poetic verses, tens of thousands of stories and prose. If you also add the different translations of the foreign sciences into Arabic from Greek, Persian, Indian and others, you then would know that we are talking about a real miracle at that time.

The library of Baghdad was a grand library by all measures. No other library was anywhere near to it in grandeur but the library of the Islamic Cordova in Andalusia. But, Exalted be Allaah! The library of Cordova had the same destiny.
When Cordova fell into the hands of the Christians of Andalusia in 636 A.H., i.e. 20 years before the fall of Baghdad, they burnt the library of Cordova entirely. This crime was committed by Bishop Kambis, who burnt everything he found in it, giving no importance to the thousands of lives and time, great amounts of wealth, much sweat and great efforts spent on their composition and writing.
But, anyway, this is always their way; to fight civilization, civility, Islam, and humanity in general.

Before talking about what the Tatars did with the compositions of the library of Baghdad, let us take a little pause with the library of Baghdad itself.

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