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Author Zadeh, Travis

Title Wonders and Rarities The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Published Dordrecht : Harvard University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (465 p.)
Summary Travis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwīnī, whose Wonders and Rarities was for centuries one of the most influential natural histories in the world. Inviting us to embrace anew Qazwīnī's rationalized study of nature and magic, Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic thought
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674287631
0674287630