Ibn Khaldun : An Intellectual Biography - Irwin, Robert (Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2018)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-236) and index.
Keywords: Ibn Khaldūn, -- 1332-1406.; Historians, Arab -- Islamic Empire -- Biography; Historiography -- Islamic Empire; Islamic civilization