The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Contributors Author: Elias Muhanna
Language
Number of Pages
214 pp.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
City
Princeton, NJ
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Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9780691175560
Annotation

Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian scholar. Examines his work and others in thirteenth to fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction
  • Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire
  • Structures of knowledge
  • Sources of knowledge
  • Encyclopedism and empire
  • Working methods
  • The reception of the Ultimate ambition