The ultimate ambition in the arts of erudition a compendium of knowledge from the classical Islamic world

An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from the perspective of a fourteenth-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and thirty volumes-here abridged to one volume, and transla...

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Main Author:	Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb 1279-1333 (Author)
Other Authors:	Muhanna, Elias (Editor, Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC [2016]
Series:	Penguin classics
Subjects:	Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic > Translations into English
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