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You can say that it was middle easterners in general that saved such books from destruction. In the Sinai for example, there is a Bedouin tribe that was brought by Justinian in the 6th century that are still living there are protecting the Copts there from Islamist terrorist gangs in the peninsula.
https://www.sinaimonastery.com/index...-the-monastery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_...39;s_Monastery
Hell, even Prophet Muhammed himself written a document granting protection and etc to the monks of the Sinai as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtin...nton_F._Haddad
Muhammed and his followers had a close bond with the ethnic Egyptians to the point that Muhammed himself was married to one as well.
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