What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2008
Contributors	Editor: Mostafa El-Abbadi Editor: Omnia Mounir Fathallah
Language	English
Number of Pages	259 pp.
Publisher	Brill
City	Leiden, Netherlands
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Region	Africa
Library Type	Archives and Special Collections Private/Personal Library Religious Libraries State/Government Libraries
Demographics	Women
Chronological Period	Ancient Period (pre 500)
ISBN	9789004165458
Annotation	Contents: The Alexandria Project Introduction À la Recherche de la Systématisation des Connaissances et du Passage du Concret à l'Abstrait dans l'Égypte Ancienne / Mounir H. Megally Private Collections and Temple Libraries in Ancient Egypt /Fayza M. Haikal Earth, Wind, and Fire: The Alexandrian Fire-storm of 48 B.C / William J. Cherf The Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: An Archaeological Viewpoint / Jean-Yves Empereur Demise of the Daughter Library / Mostafa A. El-Abbadi Ce Que Construisent les Ruines / Lucien X. Polastron The Nag Hammadi 'Library' of Coptic Papyrus Codices / Birger A. Pearson Learned Women in the Alexandrian Scholarship and Society of Late Hellenism / Maria Dzielska Synesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism: Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis / Dimitar Y. Dimitrov Damascius and the 'Collectio Philosophica': A Chapter in the History of Philosophical Schools and Libraries in the Neoplatonic Tradition / Georges Leroux Academic Life of Late Antique Alexandria: A View from the Field /Grzegorz Majcherek The Arab Story of the Destruction of the Ancient Library of Alexandria / Qassem Abdou Qassem The Arab Destruction of the Library of Alexandria: Anatomy of a Myth / Bernard Lewis Bibliography I. Sources II. Lexical Works III. Modern Literature