Irwin, Robert <br/><br/>
Ibn Khaldun :  An Intellectual Biography  

 - xxi, 243 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-236) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691174662 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017028272 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historians, Arab--Islamic Empire--Biography.<br/>Historiography--Islamic Empire.<br/>Islamic civilization.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D116.7. I3I79