I previously read in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destru... > Some m

I previously read in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)#Destru... > Some modern historians have cast some doubt on the vehemently anti-Mongol medieval sources.[46] George Lane (SOAS), for example, doubts the Grand Library was destroyed as the learned members of the Mongol command such as Nasir al-Din Tusi would not have allowed it, and that disease was the major cause of death.[47] Primary sources state that Tusi saved thousands of volumes and installed them into a building in Marāgheh. Well, the plague being the plague certainly lends credence to this.