Alhambra GRENADA library ... Bringing the fascinating past through time...

  Alhambra GRENADA library ... Bringing the fascinating past through time...

Spanish writer and novelist Antonio Gala says: "The Library of the Alhambra was the largest part of which consisted of the Library of the City of Zahra, which had over 600,000 volumes, which was burned by Cardinal Cisneros in 1501 in a place called "Bab" Ramla in Granada (this place is now a square with the same old Muslims name), and many documents, references, manuscripts, and the mothers of precious books and clouds created by scholars in various branches of knowledge in Andalusia TOLEDO have disappeared."

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It is said that the soldiers who were assigned to carry out this task were hiding some of these manuscripts while they set fire to them in their robes because of their extreme beauty and splendor; Contradictions, in the same city to which the rest of the ammunition and precious (about 4,000 manuscripts) survived the burning, the city of "Castle of the River" (Alcala de Inaris), was deposited in the same university where Cardinal Cisneros himself founded it, in this The city will later be born to the well-known Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, the author of the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is mostly inspired by Arab heritage, as most scholars assert.

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