Overview
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
- | Author: Robert Irwin
- | Publisher: Princeton University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 27, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 0691174660
- | ISBN-13: 9780691174662
