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With different voices representing different social groups, this study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries).

Civilization, Islamic --- Classification --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic --- Islam and state --- -Arabic encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Knowledge, Classification of --- Muslim civilization --- Mosque and state --- State and Islam --- History --- -Qudamah ibn Ja'far --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic. --- Classification. --- Islamic civilization --- Encyclopédies et dictionnaires arabes --- Civilisation islamique --- Qud*amah ibn Jaʻfar, --- Arabic encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Information organization --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- State, The --- Ummah (Islam) --- Qudāmah ibn Jaʻfar, --- Islamic civilization. --- Islam and state - History - To 1500 --- Qudāmah ibn Jaʻfar, - -922? - Kitāb al-kharāj

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A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab 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.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic --- REFERENCE / Almanacs. --- REFERENCE / Curiosities & Wonders. --- REFERENCE / Encyclopedias. --- REFERENCE / Questions & Answers. --- History and criticism. --- Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, --- Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, --- Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, --- 03 --- 094 <6> --- Arabic encyclopedias and dictionaries --- 03 Encyclopedieën. Naslagwerken--(Algemene) --- Encyclopedieën. Naslagwerken--(Algemene) --- 094 <6> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Afrika --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Afrika --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic - History and criticism. --- Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, - 1279-1333. - Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab.

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In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. The primary purpose of the conference was to explore and define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book, the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, contains revised versions of the papers that were prepared for this conference. This volume also includes an annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias.

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