Ibn Khaldun
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17466-2 (ISBN)
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.
Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun's life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one, and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about the history of Orientalism.
In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn Khaldun who was a creature of his time—a devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own.
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.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Chronology xix
1 Ibn Khaldun among the Ruins 1
2 The Game of Thrones in Fourteenth-Century North Africa 20
3 The Nomads, Their Virtues, and Their Place in History 39
4 Underpinning the Methodology of the Muqaddima: Philosophy, Theology, and Jurisprudence 65
5 Ibn Khaldun's Sojourn among the Mamluks in Egypt 84
6 The Sufi Mystic 108
7 Messages from the Dark Side 118
8 Economics before Economics Had Been Invented 143
9 What Ibn Khaldun Did for a Living: Teaching and Writing 153
10 The Strange Afterlife of the Muqaddima 162
11 Ending Up 204
Notes 209
Bibliography 227
Index 237
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-17466-0 / 0691174660 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17466-2 / 9780691174662 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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