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Ibn Khaldun : An Intellectual Biography

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2018Description: xxi, 243 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780691174662 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D116.7. I3I79
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks D116.7.I3I79 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 029977
Total holds: 0

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.

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