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.
Price: $18.95
Pages: 272
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
05 November 2019
ISBN: 9780691197098
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political and military, RELIGION / Islam / History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Islam, History of religion, Middle Eastern history, European history: medieval period, middle ages
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Robert Irwin (1946–2024) was senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University of St Andrews. His many books include Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents and Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics, and the Sixties, as well as seven novels. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
