The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition Dar al Taqwa Publications He died in 1416/1996

He died in 1416/1996

a blend of the mystical and rational tendencies within Islam

Distracted and polluted by worldliness

The Salaf with the Family of the House

Excerpted from Hamza Yusuf’s Introduction —

The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition Dar al Taqwa Publications He died in 1416/1996Shihab 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