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# The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World

**Brand:** elias muhanna
**Price:** 5662 kr
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- **What is this?** The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World by elias muhanna
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## Customer Reviews

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    Fascinating!
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016*

This is such an amazing book. Never would I have imagined these ideas being side by side--it really shows the richness of life comes from variety! Thank you, Elias Muhanna for translating this incredible piece of history for us to read, understand and enjoy!

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    This collection of Muslim scholarship, collected in the fourteenth ...
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2017*

This collection of Muslim scholarship, collected in the fourteenth century, exemplifies the approach Islam takes to careful observation, rational evaluation, and lucid interpretation--as well as humorous interpolation. Those of us who follow the tradition and civilization especially of the first seven centuries of Islam will keep this anthology near us, close to our hearts. I had my students summarize their knowledge about some of the topics of this tome.

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    A fine distillation of a larger work
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2019*

Little to add to the enthusiasm of the other reviewers, except to note that a one volume distillation of this 31-volume work makes me yearn for more. If you want to know more about how this book came to be, seek out Muhanna’s scholarly  “The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedia Tradition “

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