Original sentence: ", and thus burned the books to heat bathwater for the soldiers.Butler, Victor Chauvin, Paul Casanova and Eugenio Griffini.Eusèbe Renaudot, and other later scholars agreed, including Alfred J.However the legend has been dismissed as a later invention of Christian crusaders eager to justify the "barbarism" of Muslim armies.Recently, in 1990, Bernard Lewis, argued that the original account is true.Several historians told varying accounts of a Muslim army led by Amr ibn al 'Ass sacking the city in 645, and that the commander asked the  caliph Umar what to do with the library, and received the response "...if what is written in them agrees with the Koran, they are not required; if it disagrees, they are not desired.While the first Western account of the supposed event was in Edward Pococke's 1663 century translation of History of the Dynasties, it was dismissed as a hoax or propaganda as early as 1713 by Fr
Edited sentence: "  The burning of the greatest collection of the wisdom of antiquity fueled the heating of the city's bath-houses for the next six months.However, many recent historians, including Bernard Lewis, argued that the account is true.The story of the Muslim destruction of the Library is to be found in the works of several Alexandrian historians.There is general agreement among them that the caliph Umar when asked by the commander Amr ibn al 'Ass what to do about the one-million scrolls in the world's greatest library, told him ]: "Touching the books you mention, if what is written in them agrees with the Koran, they are not required; if it disagrees, they are not desired.This story has been questioned by some scholars who regard it as Christian crusader propaganda