Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
$40.01
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2020
Summary
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn 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 biograph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691197098 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691197091 |
| Author: | Robert Irwin |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 235mm x 158mm |
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About The Author
Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin (19462024) 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.
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