Shihab Al-Din Al-Nuwayri: The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Ramadan Home Zayneb heads to her aunt's

Zayneb heads to her aunt's house in Doha

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Shihab Al-Din Al-Nuwayri: The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Ramadan Home Zayneb heads to her aunt'sAn 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 volumeshere abridged to one volume, and translated into English for the first timeit contains entries on everything from medieval moon worshipping cults, sexual aphrodisiacs, and the substance of clouds,