![]() Some authorities had the illusion that with these actions he was carrying out an enlightening work, by combating extraneous beliefs in order to enhance the legitimacy of the regime among the public and to strengthen the structure of the political community around it. He said: “Just as it is not in the best interest of the guardian for orphans to reach their maturity, so is it not the aim of the tyrant that the subjects should be enlightened with knowledge. On a thorough investigation of the incidents of book burning in the Islamic heritage We found that the majority of the incidents of this reprehensible phenomenon are due to the act of power and politics, for every tyrannical authority we find in it a tendency against knowledge and the freedom of thought and enlightenment that it entails, and the scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (d.
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