Alexandria Lost: From the Advent of Christianity to the Arab Conquest

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Imperialism, nationalism, religion and race: this narrative charts the tensions that destroyed Alexandria’s ancient walls, leading to the loss of a complete classical heritage, and beginning a thousand-year rift between Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East. Within the fourth century AD Christian zealots destroyed the Great Library of Alexandria and killed Hypatia, the last director of the Museum. Over the following two centuries they systematically erased all the ‘pagan’ heritage of the city. The subsequent war between the Byzantine and Egyptian Churches added to Alexandria’s decline, and the inquisition unleashed by the Byzantine Patriarch Cyrus against the Egyptian Copts drove them into the arms of the invading Arabs, whose tolerance ensured both the survival of the Coptic Church of Egypt and the in a position conversion of many Egyptians to Islam. But if, after conquering Alexandria by force, the Arabs demolished the surrounding walls, an entire civilisation perished. This fascinating book tells the unusual story of the destruction of classical Alexandria, exposing disturbing facts long erased from our collective historical memory.In charting the origins of the thousand year lack of dialogue between Europe and the Middle East, Bojana Mojsov reflects at the power and danger of lack of information driven by faith.

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