The Resource 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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- 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 cosmology, zoology, and botany to philosophy, poetry, ethics, statecraft, and history. Composed in Cairo during the golden age of Islamic encyclopedic activity, the Ultimate Ambition was one of hundreds of large-scale compendia, literary anthologies, dictionaries, and chronicles produced at this time-an effort that was instrumental in organizing the archive of medieval Islamic thought. In the first study of this landmark work in a European language, Elias Muhanna explores its structure and contents, sources and influences, and reception and impact in the Islamic world and Europe. He sheds new light on the rise of encyclopedic literature in the learned cities of the Mamluk Empire and situates this intellectual movement alongside other encyclopedic traditions in the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods. He also uncovers al-Nuwayri's world: a scene of bustling colleges, imperial chanceries, crowded libraries, and religious politics. Based on award-winning scholarship, The World in a Book opens up new areas in the comparative study of encyclopedic production and the transmission of knowledge
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 214 pages
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire
- Structures of knowledge
- Sources of knowledge
- Encyclopedism and empire
- Working methods
- The reception of the Ultimate ambition
- Isbn
- 9780691175560
- Label
- The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition
- Title
- The world in a book
- Title remainder
- Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition
- Statement of responsibility
- Elias Muhanna
- Language
- eng
- 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 cosmology, zoology, and botany to philosophy, poetry, ethics, statecraft, and history. Composed in Cairo during the golden age of Islamic encyclopedic activity, the Ultimate Ambition was one of hundreds of large-scale compendia, literary anthologies, dictionaries, and chronicles produced at this time-an effort that was instrumental in organizing the archive of medieval Islamic thought. In the first study of this landmark work in a European language, Elias Muhanna explores its structure and contents, sources and influences, and reception and impact in the Islamic world and Europe. He sheds new light on the rise of encyclopedic literature in the learned cities of the Mamluk Empire and situates this intellectual movement alongside other encyclopedic traditions in the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods. He also uncovers al-Nuwayri's world: a scene of bustling colleges, imperial chanceries, crowded libraries, and religious politics. Based on award-winning scholarship, The World in a Book opens up new areas in the comparative study of encyclopedic production and the transmission of knowledge
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Muhanna, Elias
- Dewey number
- 030.927
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- AE2.N8
- LC item number
- M84 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic
- 02.01 history of science and culture
- Label
- The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition, Elias Muhanna
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-208) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire -- Structures of knowledge -- Sources of knowledge -- Encyclopedism and empire -- Working methods -- The reception of the Ultimate ambition
- Control code
- 980858431
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691175560
- Lccn
- 2017011145
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)980858431
- Label
- The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition, Elias Muhanna
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-208) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire -- Structures of knowledge -- Sources of knowledge -- Encyclopedism and empire -- Working methods -- The reception of the Ultimate ambition
- Control code
- 980858431
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691175560
- Lccn
- 2017011145
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)980858431
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