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Eh, no. The Library was 'destroyed' repeatedly (last by a zealous khaliph Omar) and most ancient texts were preserved by educated Byzantines. Who collected their books everywhere, including from Muslims.
I would like to leave a suggestion for 3 wonders.
1. Library of Alexandria (destroyed by Romans)
2. Bayt al Hikmah (House of Wisdom), center of islamic intellectual life during the Golden Age of the Mutazilites (anti sunni/anti shia rationalist muslims under influence of Hellenist philosophy, yay!) It was destroyed by Hulagu Khan of the Mongols :(((((((
3. Academy of Gondishapur, center of Persian Sassanian intellectual life during the pre-islamic 6th to 7th centuries. It was where Hellenist dissidents could flee to from Christian oppression in the Byzantine Empire to continue their works!
There is video on it if you do not believe me. Feel free to look it up on Youtube for 1800s movies
"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley