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The Destruction of Bukhara's Library: A Mongol Legacy
In 1220, Genghis Khan's armies swept into Bukhara, one of the Islamic world's great centers of learning. The Mongols burned the city's vast library of over 45,000 manuscripts, including irreplaceable works of science, philosophy, and poetry. This episode explores what was lost: the Khwarezmian capital's scholarly tradition, the famous scholars like Ibn Sina who studied there, and how the library's destruction reshaped Central Asian intellectual history. We discuss the accounts of Ibn al-Athir and Juvayni, the debated number of volumes, and the long shadow cast by this…
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