Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson

Author:Mike Thomson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Syria, or its antecedents, has also been home to many remarkable writers over the years. The year 64 BC marked the birth of Nicolaus of Damascus, who was to become a revered historian and author. Nicolaus became a close friend of Herod the Great and tutored the children of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. And when it came to putting pen to paper, few were more prolific than Nicolaus. Among his achievements was a history of the world in 144 volumes, several plays, as well as various biographies and works on subjects as diverse as philosophy and botany.

Over 800 years later, in AD 788, came the birth of the poet Abu Tammam. A Christian who later converted to Islam, he is best known for a ten-book anthology of Arabic poetry. It contains more than 800 poems which Saladin himself, the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, is said to have learned by heart. Perhaps they were all very short. I am not sure if this book was on the shelves of the secret library, but if it was the founders might have taken exception to the following lines:

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