The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition / Elias Muhanna.
The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition / Elias Muhanna.
The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition / Elias Muhanna.
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [[2018]
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G 2018/0033
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 214 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [[2018]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[[2018]
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Summary
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 on nearly every conceivable subject, from cos...
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The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition / Elias Muhanna.
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/0033
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74VKVGA0yZPy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGA0yZPy
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ISBN
069117556X hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780691175560 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
030.927
MMS ID
991024154705502626
