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 mater...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Muhanna, Elias (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, > 1279-1333. > Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab.
Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab (Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb)
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic > History and criticism.
02.01 history of science and culture.
REFERENCE > Almanacs.
REFERENCE > Curiosities & Wonders.
REFERENCE > Encyclopedias.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire
  • Structures of knowledge
  • Sources of knowledge
  • Encyclopedism and empire
  • Working methods
  • The reception of the Ultimate ambition.

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