Everyone credits @NegarestaniReza for pioneering theory-fiction like The DaVinci Code didn't come out first
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The Ibn Nafis one and Ibn-Hamedani's The Book of Marvels are the sources of cyclonopedia. The first one is a philosophical treatise written in the framework of the first sci-fi novel and the other one is an encyclopedia of desert anomalies from climates to rocks and creatures.
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I can find Theologus Autodidactus quite easily, but The Book of Marvels eludes me
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Unfortunately, it is not translated to English yet. It's the book upon which Zakariya al-Qazwini wrote his famed encyclopedia with the same title: Ajaa'ib al-maqlugaat val qarayeb-e al-mojudat (roughly, a treatise on strange creatures and beings).
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