Toby Lester ✓

(1964) author United States

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Toby Lester (born 1964) was a United States author.

About Toby Lester

Toby Lester is an American journalist, scholar and author. He received attention after writing two nonfiction works on the role of maps in the discovery of America and on Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the Vitruvian Man.

Notable works:

The fourth part of the world

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The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's… Circumstances
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… Accounts

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