Description
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.Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780691197098
ISBN10: 0691197091
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Religion | Islam | History
- History | Middle East | General
About the Author
Robert Irwin is senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. His many books include Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents and Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics, and the Sixties. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.