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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 mate...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |