Shihab Al Din Al Nuwayri: 1 book
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition
A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist...
