Ibn Khaldun : an intellectual biography /

"Ibn 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 Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well...

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Main Author: Irwin, Robert, 1946- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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505 0 |a Ibn Khaldun among the ruins -- The game of thrones in fourteenth-century North Africa -- The nomads, their virtues, and their place in history -- Underpinning the methodology of the Muqaddima : philosophy, theology, and jurisprudence -- Ibn Khaldun's sojourn among the Mamluks in Egypt -- The sufi mystic -- Messages from the dark side -- Economics before economics had been invented -- What Ibn Khaldun did for a living : teaching and writing -- The strange afterlife of the Muqaddima -- Ending up. 
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