Ibn Khaldun (eBook)

An Intellectual Biography

Robert Irwin (Autor)

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2018
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8954-9 (ISBN)

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The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (13321406) 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 timea devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own.

Autor

Robert Irwin is senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. 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 is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Schlagworte: abbasid caliphate • Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences) • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Al-Farabi • Algeria • Al-Ghazali • Al-Maqrizi • Almohad Caliphate • Al-Nasir • Anecdote • Arabist • arabs • Astrology • Averroes • Ayyubid dynasty • Banu Hilal • Banu Salama • Banu Sulaym • Barbarian • Barquq • Bedouin • Berbers • Caliphate • Civilization • Early Muslim conquests • Edward Gibbon • egyptians • Emir • Ernest Gellner • Exegesis • Fakhr al-Din al-Razi • Fatimid Caliphate • God • Hadith • hajib • Historiography • Ibn al-Khatib • Ibn Khaldun • Ibn Taghribirdi • Ibn Tumart • infidel • Islam • Istislah • Jews • Jizya • kitab • l'histoire • Literature • madrasa • Maghreb • Mamluk • Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) • Marinid dynasty • mercenary • Modernity • Morality • Morocco • Mosque • Muhammad • Muhsin Mahdi • Muslim • Muslim world • Naguib Mahfouz • North Africa • Occult • Patricia Crone • pessimism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of History • Poetry • Polemic • Princeton University Press • qadi • Quran • Religion • Religious Law • Religious Science • Rite • Sanhaja • Sharia • Sheikh • Sufism • Sunni Islam • Tax • Theology • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • The Sufis • Timur • Tlemcen • treatise • Tribalism • Tunisia • Umar • Umayyad Caliphate • Universal History • Vizier • warfare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8954-5 / 1400889545
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8954-9 / 9781400889549