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Ibn Khaldun - Life and Times (Paperback)
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Ibn Khaldun - Life and Times (Paperback)
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The first complete, scholarly English-language biography of Ibn
Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and
important Muslim thinkers in history, inspiring at least as much
interest among modern scholars as his immediate contemporaries.
Legions of sociologists, anthropologists and historians have
studied his philosophy of history, treating the Muqaddimah as a
timeless piece of philosophy. Yet most studies ignore the
fascinating story of Ibn Khaldun's own life and times. Rejecting
portrayals of him as a modern mind lost in medieval obscurity,
Allen Fromherz demonstrates how Ibn Khaldun's ideas were shaped by
his historical context and personal motivations. Relying on
original Arabic sources, most importantly Ibn Khaldun's unique
autobiography, this is the first complete, scholarly biography of
Ibn Khaldun in English. It not only tells the life story of Ibn
Khaldun in an accessible way, it also introduces readers to the
fourteenth-century Mediterranean world. Seen in the context of a
politically tumultuous and religiously contentious fourteenth
century Mediterranean, Ibn Khaldun's ideas about tribalism,
identity, religion and history are even more relevant to pressing,
modern concerns.
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