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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Yazar: Muhanna, Elias (Yazar)
Resource Type: Kitap
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press 2018.
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İçindekiler:
  • Introduction
  • Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire
  • Structures of knowledge
  • Sources of knowledge
  • Encyclopedism and empire
  • Working methods
  • The reception of the Ultimate ambition.