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The world in a book [electronic resource] Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition
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| 서명/저자사항 | The world in a book : Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic encyclopedic tradition/ Elias Muhanna. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Muhanna, Elias,author. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2018]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Muhanna, Elias author. World in a book 9780691175560 |
| ISBN | 1400887852 9781400887859 |
| 일반주기 |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.
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| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Introduction -- Encyclopedism in the Mamluk Empire -- Structures of knowledge -- Sources of knowledge -- Encyclopedism and empire -- Working methods -- The reception of the Ultimate ambition. |
| 요약 | 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. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, -- Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab.1279-1333. -- |
| 일반주제명 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic --History and criticism. REFERENCE --Almanacs. REFERENCE --Curiosities & Wonders. REFERENCE --Encyclopedias. REFERENCE --Questions & Answers. 02.01 history of science and culture. Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic. LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern |
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