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Ibn Khaldūn
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Ibn Khaldun
A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and statesman.
IBN Khaldun
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Ibn Khaldun
A reinterpretation of Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arabic philosopher, historian and politician.
Ibn Khaldun
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
Ibn Khaldun
On the life and works of Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406, Arab Muslim historiographer and historian.
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in Cairo in 1406. He is the most significant social scientist of Classical Islam, and his work has preserved its message and timeliness until our times. The society he ingeniously described has remained familiar to posterity due to the survival of several elements of patrimonial empire in the Middle East. The up-to-date character of his work is also assured by the fact that he is being considered as the "founding father" of almost half a dozen disciplines. His unique work, al-Muqaddima (Introduction to History), first formulated in 1375, has won the great esteem of later centuries because of two remarkable achievements. One of them is that he, laying the foundations of deeply original theory of civilization, made history a never-before-existing independent discipline. His other great scientific achievement is the model-like elaboration of patrimonial empires, which has preserved its validity even until today in the examination of the forma
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun, the most celebrated thinker of the Muslim Middle Ages, is the subject of this intriguing study. Lacoste opens with a general description of the Maghreb in the later Middle Ages, focusing primarily on mercantile trade, especially in gold, and the social and economic structures of tribal life. He unravels Khaldun's fascinating biography--born of an aristocratic family in Tunis in 1332, he had an extraordinary diplomatic and military career in the turbulent wars and politics of Western Islam in the fourteenth century; withdrew to a desert retreat in 1375, and finally emigrated to Egypt. Lacoste then turns his attention to Ibn Khaldun's majestic Universal History, arguably the great...
