The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition by Elias Muhanna

The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

Elias Muhanna

334 pages first pub 2017 (editions) user-added

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A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world--al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the ...

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