By Elias Muhanna
ISBN-10: 069117556X
ISBN-13: 9780691175560
Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri used to be a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the writer of 1 of the best encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—a thirty-one-volume paintings entitled The final Ambition within the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of data, this huge, immense booklet introduced jointly fabrics on approximately each feasible topic, from cosmology, zoology, and botany to philosophy, poetry, ethics, statecraft, and historical past. Composed in Cairo throughout the golden age of Islamic encyclopedic task, the Ultimate Ambition was one in all enormous quantities of large-scale compendia, literary anthologies, dictionaries, and chronicles produced at this time—an attempt that used to be instrumental in organizing the archive of medieval Islamic thought.
In the 1st learn of this landmark paintings in a eu language, Elias Muhanna explores its constitution and contents, resources and affects, and reception and impression within the Islamic global and Europe. He sheds new gentle at the upward thrust of encyclopedic literature within the discovered towns of the Mamluk Empire and situates this highbrow circulation along different encyclopedic traditions within the old, medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment classes. He additionally uncovers al-Nuwayri’s global: a scene of bustling schools, imperial chanceries, crowded libraries, and non secular politics.
Based on award-winning scholarship, The international in a Book opens up new parts within the comparative examine of encyclopedic construction and the transmission of knowledge.
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