Elias Muhanna: 2 books
The World in a Book
Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
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 materials...
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...