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Author Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1279-1333, author.

Title The ultimate ambition in the arts of erudition : a compendium of knowledge from the classical Islamic world / Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri ; edited, translated, and with an Introduction and notes by Elias Muhanna.

Publisher New York : Penguin Books, ©2016.

ISBN 9780143107484
0143107488



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Description 318 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Note Translated from the Arabic.
Subject(S) Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic -- Translations into English.
Encyclopedias.
Added Name(S) Muhanna, Elias, editor.
Added Title(S) Nihāyat al-Arab fī funūn al-adab.
ISBN 9780143107484
0143107488