The World in a Book : : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition / / Elias Muhanna.
Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of knowledge, this enormous book brought together mater...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 7 halftones. 4 line illus. 14 tables. |
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