Ibn Khaldun : An Intellectual Biography
Irwin, Robert
Ibn Khaldun : An Intellectual Biography - xxi, 243 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-236) and index.
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 -- Teaching and writing: what Ibn Khaldun did for a living -- The strange afterlife of the Muqaddima -- Ending up.
9780691174662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2017028272
Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406.
Historians, Arab--Islamic Empire--Biography.
Historiography--Islamic Empire.
Islamic civilization.
D116.7. I3I79
Ibn Khaldun : An Intellectual Biography - xxi, 243 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-236) and index.
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 -- Teaching and writing: what Ibn Khaldun did for a living -- The strange afterlife of the Muqaddima -- Ending up.
9780691174662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2017028272
Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406.
Historians, Arab--Islamic Empire--Biography.
Historiography--Islamic Empire.
Islamic civilization.
D116.7. I3I79