Elias Muhanna

Elias Muhanna is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The World in a Book: al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition and translator of Shih b al-D n al-Nuwayr 's fourteenth-century Arabic compendium The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition , which was chosen as a "Best Book of 2016" by NPR and The Guardian , and editor of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies .

Elias Muhanna is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The World in a Book: al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition and translator of Shih b al-D n al-Nuwayr 's fourteenth-century Arabic compendium The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition , which was chosen as a "Best Book of 2016" by NPR and The Guardian , and editor of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies . See less