For the first time in English, a catalog of the World through fourteenth-century Arab eyes--a kind of Schott\'s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age 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 translated into English for the.
For the first time in English, a catalog of the World through fourteenth-century Arab eyes--a kind of Schott\'s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age 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
