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Ibn Khaldun - An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)
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Ibn Khaldun - An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)
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The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab
genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally
regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the
Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds.
Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of
history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as
he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this
groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an
engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary
life, times, writings, and ideas. Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who
lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series
of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and
Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a
teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly
original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other
contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun's life and
thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including
medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature,
economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often
seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has
often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one,
and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about
the history of Orientalism. In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn
Khaldun who was a creature of his time-a devout Sufi mystic who was
obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an
often-strange world quite different from our own.
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