Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

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