The World in a Book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

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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 of knowledge, this enormous book brought together mate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Muhanna, Elias
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, > 1279-1333. > Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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