If the hare sees the sea
Anna Della Subin: Shihab al-Dinal-Nuwayri, 30 November 2017
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition
by Shihab al-Dinal-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna.
Penguin, 352 pp., £11.99, October 2016,978 0 14 310748 4 Show More
by Shihab al-Dinal-Nuwayri, translated by Elias Muhanna.
Penguin, 352 pp., £11.99, October 2016,
“... I mounted the stallion of reading,’ Shihab al-Dinal-Nuwayri wrote, recalling the moment, around the year 1316, when he quit his job. He had been a financial clerk in the Mamluk Empire, employed by the Sultan al-Nasir to manage the royal properties and handle all species of paperwork ... ”
