Book Burning Spanish Inquisition

He also mentions the talmud being burned for blasphemy in 1141.

Book burning spanish inquisition. In 1492 after the spanish conquered granada the last muslim kingdom in western europe they allegedly emptied many of the city s treasured libraries and set their contents all to flame. For instance when the vizier al mansu r set up a plot to usurp the throne of cordoba in 978 he gained the support of the local jurists one of the pillars of islamic society by copying out the qu ran with his own hand and by removing several heretical works from the library of his predecessor al hakam ii and having them burnt watt 82. Hill references infamous book burning incidents executed by the nazi party and the spanish inquisition.

If you google anything related to book burning this image or others related to nazi censorship appear primarily. In the spanish territory under muslim rule book burning was not unusual. Even the president of the united states attempted to prevent this case of book burning.

In the three cases of the spanish inquisition the french revolution and nazism book burnings and iconoclasm were to varying degrees tribal alternatively racial or ideological in origin but the nature of book burnings and iconoclasm lends itself to ideology. Book burnings from time magazine. These are groups and incidents nobody wants to be associated with.