The book 'The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition' is a major literary encyclopedia by the Egyptian historian Shihb al-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Nuwayri (677/1279-733/1333 CE), Nuwayri collected the essence of the Arab heritage in both literature and in history. The encyclopedia includes history, literature, geography, astronomy, zoology, anatomy, economics, chronology...