Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016
ISBN 10: 0143107488 ISBN 13: 9780143107484
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Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016
ISBN 10: 0143107488 ISBN 13: 9780143107484
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Okt 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0143107488 ISBN 13: 9780143107484
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 first time it contains entries on everything from medieval moon-worshipping cults, sexual aphrodisiacs, and the substance of clouds, to how to get the smell of alcohol off one s breath, the deliciousness of cheese made from buffalo milk, and the nesting habits of flamingos. Similar works by Western authors, including Pliny s Natural History and Diderot sEncyclopédie,have been available in English for centuries. This groundbreaking translation of a remarkable Arabic text expertly abridged and annotated offers a look at the world through the highly literary and impressively knowledgeable societies of the classical Islamic world. Meticulously arranged and delightfully eclectic, it is a compendium to be treasured a true monument of erudition.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016
ISBN 10: 0143107488 ISBN 13: 9780143107484
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: New. Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri (1279&ndash1333) was an Egyptian scholar and civil servant in the Mamluk Empire. His nine-thousand-page, thirty-three-volume encyclopedia, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, is one of the most import.