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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主要作者:	Muhanna, Elias (Author)
Resource Type:	圖書
語言:	English
出版:	Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press 2018.
主題:	Encyclopedia and dictionaries, Arabic > History and criticism.