Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad Nuwayrī (1279–1333)

First, thanks to Elias Muhanna for convincing a trade press to publish this. It's great fun: selections from a fourteenth century Egyptian 'encyclopaedia.' There are great stories, weird facts, and our translator/edtior does some good imitations of rhythmical/rhymed prose.

I would say, for the next edition, this reader would prefer more pages from the history and the metaphysics, and rather fewer pages about plants. But I guess the reading public demands science, or nature, or something. Screw that. Give me angels and sultans.… (lisätietoja)