Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
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Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
By (Author) Robert Irwin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
13th January 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of religion
Middle Eastern history
European history: medieval period, middle ages
Biography: historical, political and military
907.202
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
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 produ
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Author Bio
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.
