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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations, Transliteration, and Dates
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire
- CHAPTER TWO. Structures of Knowledge
- CHAPTER THREE. Sources of Knowledge
- CHAPTER FOUR. Encyclopedism and Empire
- CHAPTER FIVE. Working Methods
- CHAPTER SIX. The Reception of the Ultimate Ambition
- Appendix A. The Contents of the Ultimate Ambition
- Appendix B. A Guide to the Ultimate Ambition's Editions and Chapter Word Counts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index