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Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher…
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Javad Tabatabai
Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Prolegomena, written in 1377, as the point at…
Elena Sahin
In The Grand Critic of Ibn Khaldun Elena Sahin critically analyses the major aspects of Ibn al-Azraq's (d. 896/1491) political thought as presented in Bada?i? al-Silk fi ?aba?i? al-Mulk (Unprecedented…
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Abdesselam Cheddadi
This book explores the significance of Ibn Khaldun's magnum opus, The Book of Examples, to our understanding of human history and the disciplines of anthropology, history, and sociology.
Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern historiography…
Shamim Miah
An introduction to the life and works of Ibn Khaldun.
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Syed Farid Alatas (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore)
Ibn Khaldun was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre-modern period. Part of the ‘Makers of Islamic Civilization’ series, this book introduces the reader to Ibn Khaldun’s…
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The Muqaddimah, also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or Ibn Khaldun’s Prolegomena was written by the Arab, North African Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an…
Sufism through the eyes of a legal scholar
In The Requirements of the Sufi Path, the renowned North African historian and jurist Ibn Khaldun applies his analytical powers to Sufism…
Zaid Ahmad
This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun’s epistemology, centred on chapter six of the Muqaddima - The Book of Knowledge - where Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about…
Aziz Al-Azmeh
A reinterpretation of Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arabic philosopher, historian and politician.
This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun’s epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima.
Gokhan Bacik
Offers provocative re-readings of five political rationalists in Islamic political thought between the eighth and the fifteenth century.
Michael Brett
The book deals with the history of North Africa in the Middle Ages. It examines the formation of a society increasingly influenced by Arabic, as well as Islamic, culture after…
Ahmed Imam
Ibn Khaldun was more than just one of The Great Historians of all time. This man was also a supreme judge, government minister, social scientist, political expert and Hafiz Al…
Robert Irwin
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…
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Allen James Fromherz
A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and statesman.
Duncan B MacDonald
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Duncan B Macdonald
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Soyer Mehmet
This study examines the extent to which Khaldun can legitimately be considered a founding father of sociology. To pursue this contention, Khaldun’s theoretical framework will be compared with four Western…
Ibn Khaldun on Sufism: Remedy for the Questioner in Search of Answers is the first ever translation into English of Shifa’ al-Sa'il li-Tahdhib al-Masa'il. The translation itself addresses the dichotomies…
This work is essentially a legal opinion, a fatwa, asserting the inherent validity of the Sufi path –
The Muqaddimah (
), often translated as Introduction or Prolegomenon, is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d…
Yves Lacoste
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…
Fuad Baali
‘Ilm al- 'umran is …an independent science. This science has its own peculiar object-that is, human civilization and social organization. The discussion of this topic is something new, extraordinary, and…
Syed Farid Alatas
This book provides an overview of Ibn Khaldun and his sociology, discusses reasons for his marginality, and suggests ways to bring Ibn Khaldun into the mainstream through the systematic application…
Stephen Frederic Dale
The Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to explain the underlying causes of events such as the cyclical rise and fall of…
Annalisa Verza
This book presents Ibn Khaldun’s anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldun-scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge-wrote…
Ibn Ibn Khaldun
The Muqaddimah, often translated as Introduction or Prolegomenon, is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this…
Turhan Kurt
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich VWL - Makrooekonomie, allgemein, Note: 2,3, Universitat Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ibn Khaldun war Historiker, Philosoph, Soziologe, Kulturwissenschaftler, OEkonom, Lehrer und Richter. In…
Giovanna Lelli
This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun, a text that has been studied up to the present as a work on historiography. It argues that…
Muhsin Mahdi
This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented…
Mohammad R. Salama
Suitable for those interested in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Western and Islamic philosophies of history, and modernity, this book compares Arab-Islamic and European traditions of historical thought since the…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
