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

232 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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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 o...

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