Ibn Khaldun : : An Intellectual Biography / / Robert Irwin.
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqad...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Chapter One. Ibn Khaldun among the Ruins
- Chapter Two. The Game of Thrones in Fourteenth-Century North Africa
- Chapter Three. The Nomads, Their Virtues, and Their Place in History
- Chapter Four. Underpinning the Methodology of the Muqaddima: Philosophy, Theology, and Jurisprudence
- Chapter Five. Ibn Khaldun's Sojourn among the Mamluks in Egypt
- Chapter Six. The Sufi Mystic
- Chapter Seven. Messages from fhe Dark Side
- Chapter Eight. Economics before Economics Had Been Invented
- Chapter Nine. What Ibn Khaldun Did for a Living: Teaching and Writing
- Chapter Ten. The Strange Afterlife of the Muqaddima
- Chapter Eleven. Ending Up
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index