The
Mosul University Library opened in 1967. Sixty of Mosul's wealthiest
citizens donated their historic book collections to the university and the library eventually contained a million books, historic
maps, and ancient manuscripts that dated back to the ninth century.
All those books are gone now:
During the thirty-two months that the Islamic State ruled the city, the university campus, on tree-lined grounds near the Tigris River, was gradually closed down and then torched. Quite intentionally, the library was hardest hit. ISIS sought to kill the ideas within its walls.
Mosul University Library 2017
Extremist Muslims have a saying about books and their contents:
If it's already in the Koran we don't need it,
and if it's not in the Koran we don't need it.
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