The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition Dar al Taqwa Publications Awhad al-din Balyani (died 1287)

Awhad al-din Balyani (died 1287)

has exercised a profound influence on Muslim intellectual history by exploring the mystical significance of the practices and beliefs of Islamic orthodoxy

Distracted and polluted by worldliness

a blend of the mystical and rational tendencies within Islam

Imam Zaid Shakir has accompanied this text with an in-depth commentary based upon the Qur’an and Hadith that enriches and contextualizes the concise prose of Imam al-Muhasibi within the social milieu of our times

The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition Dar al Taqwa Publications Awhad al-din Balyani (died 1287)Shihab 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