How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

[szany]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/books/review/book-review-the-house-of-wisdom-by-jim-al-khalili.html

[Create]

Science and Islam (documentary) is a BBC series on the topic.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Science_and_I...

[TNO]

If the Muslims didn't burn down the library of Alexandria I wonder if the Renaissance wouldn't have come much sooner.

[paradoja → TNO]

The library was probably burnt more than once, and there's no proof that the Muslims did it the last time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Arabic_so...

[TNO → paradoja]

"the last time".

You're right to infer that the Christians did their fair share of burning as well, if not more so in this case.