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The library was created by Ptolemy I Soter, who was a Macedonian general and the successor of Alexander the Great. The library is famous for having been burned resulting in the loss of many scrolls and books, and has become a symbol of the destruction of cultural knowledge. the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter (c.367 BC—c.283 BC). The Library was built in the Royal Quarter (Four) in the style of Aristotle's Lyceum. During Caesar's Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria in 48 BC. This fire spread to the library, destroying it. The library seems to have continued in existence to some degree until its contents were largely lost during the taking of the city by the Emperor Aurelian (AD 270–275), Paganism was made illegal by an edict of the Emperor Theodosius I in AD 391. The temples of Alexandria were closed by Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria in AD 391. The historian Socrates of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) describes that all pagan temples in Alexandria were destroyed, including the Serapeum. ( Temple to Serapis, i.e. Temple to Ascension) Since the Serapeum (Temple of Serapis was devised during the 3rd century BC on the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm) housed a part of the Great Library, some scholars believe that the remains of the Library of Alexandria were destroyed at this time. In AD 642, Alexandria was captured by the Muslim army of Amr ibn al `Aas. Several later Arabic sources describe the library's destruction by the order of Caliph Omar. Bar-Hebraeus, writing in the 13th century, quotes Omar as saying to Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī: "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them.