The world in a book Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition
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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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University Press
2018.
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