Ibn Khaldun

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691197098

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Ibn Khaldun by Robert Irwin Pdf

"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"--Jacket.

Author : Zaid Ahmad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134413805

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The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun by Zaid Ahmad Pdf

This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima. In this chapter, entitled The Book of Knowledge (Kitab al'Ilm), Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about knowledge and science and its relationship with human social organisation and the establishment of a civilisation.

Author : Ibn Khaldun
Publisher : Dar UL Thaqafah
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9390804760

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The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun Pdf

The Muqaddimah (ألمقدمة), often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad.

Author : Allen James Fromherz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748654185

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Ibn Khaldun by Allen James Fromherz Pdf

A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and statesman.

Author : Aziz Al-Azmeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136279577

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Ibn Khaldun by Aziz Al-Azmeh Pdf

A reinterpretation of Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arabic philosopher, historian and politician.

Author : Stephen Frederic Dale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674495821

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The Orange Trees of Marrakesh by Stephen Frederic Dale Pdf

An examination of Khaldun’s Islamic history of the premodern world, its philosophical underpinnings, and the author himself. In his masterwork Muqaddimah, the Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), a Tunisian descendant of Andalusian scholars and officials in Seville, developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to identify the underlying causes of events. His methodology was derived from Aristotelian notions of nature and causation, and he applied it to create a dialectical model that explained the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. The Muqaddimah represents the world’s first example of structural history and historical sociology. Four centuries before the European Enlightenment, this work anticipated modern historiography and social science. In Stephen F. Dale’s The Orange Trees of Marrakesh, Ibn Khaldun emerges as a cultured urban intellectual and professional religious judge who demanded his fellow Muslim historians abandon their worthless tradition of narrative historiography and instead base their works on a philosophically informed understanding of social organizations. His strikingly modern approach to historical research established him as the premodern world’s preeminent historical scholar. It also demonstrated his membership in an intellectual lineage that begins with Plato, Aristotle, and Galen; continues with the Greco-Muslim philosophers al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes; and is renewed with Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, and Durkheim. Praise for The Orange Trees of Marrakesh “Stephen Dale’s book contains a careful account of the dizzying ups and downs of Ibn Khaldun’s political and academic career at courts in North Africa, Andalusia and Egypt. For these and other reasons The Orange Trees of Marrakesh deserves careful and respectful attention.” —Robert Irwin, The Times Literary Supplement (UK) “Historian Stephen Frederic Dale argues that Ibn Khaldun’s work is a key milestone on the road from Greek to Enlightenment thought, chiming with the radical reasoning of philosophers such as Montesquieu and Adam Smith.” —Barbara Kiser, Nature “Dale’s interest in Greco-Islamic philosophy contributes to this biography’s uniqueness . . . This work provides indispensable background information to truly appreciate this single most influential Islamic historian.” —R. W. Zens, Choice “Excellent scholarship on a fascinating subject.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317366348

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Ibn Khaldûn's Philosophy of History by Muhsin Mahdi Pdf

This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers. In no other field has the revolt of modern Western thought against traditional philosophy been so far-reaching in its consequences as in the field of history. Ibn Khaldun realized that history is more immediately related to action than political philosophy because it studies the actual state of man and society. He found that the ancients had not made history the object of an independent science, and thought it was important to fill this gap. A factual acquaintance with the conclusions of Ibn Khaldun’s reflections on history is not the same as the full comprehension of their theoretical significance. When these fundamental questions are answered, it becomes possible to pose the specific question of the relation of Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history, or his new science of culture, to other practical sciences and, particularly, to the art of history. After an exposition of the major trends of Islamic historiography, part of this book attempts to answer this question through the analysis of the method and intention of the sections of the ‘History’ where Ibn Khaldun himself examines the works of major Muslim historians, shows the necessity of the new science of culture, and distinguishes it from other practical sciences.

Author : Ibn Khaldūn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sufism
ISBN : 1911141287

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Ibn Khaldun on Sufism by Ibn Khaldūn Pdf

Can the seeker after Truth wholly depend on the guidance found in books on Sufism or are the oral teachings of a spiritual master necessary? This was a heated debate in fourteenth-century Andalusia that extended beyond the confines of Sufi circles. Ibn Khaldun ventured into this debate with a treatise that is as relevant today as it was then. Ibn Khaldun on Sufism: Remedy for the Questioner in Search of Answers is the first ever translation into English of Shifa' al-Sa'il li-Tahdhib al-Masa'il. Though Ibn Khaldun is renowned for the Muqaddima and the 'Ibar--which are considered milestones in the fields of medieval sociology and the philosophy of history--little is known about his religious and spiritual life. In her introduction to Ibn Khaldun on Sufism, Dr Yumna Ozer seeks to restore Ibn Khaldun and his work to the context from which his theories arose, both in intellectual and religious terms; she also draws a vivid painting of Sufism in the fourteenth century and rethinks Ibn Khaldun's relationship with Sufism. The translation itself addresses the dichotomies or synergies between religious law and the Sufi path, the roles played by jurists, and that played by Sufis, and the particular position of the Sufi shaykh or spiritual master.

Author : Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ʻInān,Mohammad Abdullah Enan
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Historians
ISBN : 9789839541533

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Ibn Khaldūn by Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ʻInān,Mohammad Abdullah Enan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fundación El legado andalusì
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 8496556344

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Ibn Khaldun by Anonim Pdf

Author : Syed Farid Alatas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317593997

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Applying Ibn Khaldūn by Syed Farid Alatas Pdf

The writings of Ibn Khaldūn, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldūn has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition, however, few works went beyond proclaiming him as a founder or precursor to the systematic application of his theoretical perspective to specific historical and contemporary aspects of Muslim societies in North Africa and the Middle East. The continuing presence of Eurocentrism in the social sciences has not helped in this regard: it often stands in the way of the consideration of non-Western sources of theories and concepts. This book provides an overview of Ibn Khaldūn and his sociology, discusses reasons for his marginality, and suggests ways to bring Ibn Khaldūn into the mainstream through the systematic application of his theory. It moves beyond works that simply state that Ibn Khaldūn was a founder of sociology or provide descriptive accounts of his works. Instead it systematically applies Khaldūn’s theoretical perspective to specific historical aspects of Muslim societies in North Africa and the Middle East, successfully integrating concepts and frameworks from Khaldūnian sociology into modern social science theories. Applying Ibn Khaldūn will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and social theory.

Author : Annalisa Verza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030703394

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Ibn Khaldūn and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power by Annalisa Verza Pdf

This book presents Ibn Khaldūn's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldūn—scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge—wrote a revolutionary sociological-philosophical treatise, the Muqaddima. This book places his broad, complex, and refined treatise against the background of the Islamo-Greek culture of his time and analyses its main sociological, but also philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives. Finally, thanks to its "universalisable" core, the author recontextualizes the teachings from the Muqaddima to reveal the deep insights it provides into the society, politics and law of contemporary liberal and multicultural civilisations. A deeper reception of Ibn Khaldūn's perspective is not only important in understanding the Arab contribution to social theory, social history and philosophy, but also diversifies the sociological project beyond the Euro-American standpoint. Given its interdisciplinary appeal, the book addresses a wide readership of students and scholars in sociology, the sociology of law, philosophy of law, philosophy of history, political philosophy, history of civilisations, political sociology, and Arabic studies.

Author : Syed Farid Alatas
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0198090455

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Ibn Khaldun by Syed Farid Alatas Pdf

Ibn Khaldun was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre-modern period. Part of the 'Makers of Islamic Civilization' series, this book introduces the reader to Ibn Khaldun's core ideas, focusing on his theory of the rise and decline of states.

Author : Fuad Baali
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887066100

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Society, State, and Urbanism by Fuad Baali Pdf

’Ilm al- ’umran is “...an independent science. This science has its own peculiar object—that is, human civilization and social organization. The discussion of this topic is something new, extraordinary, and highly useful. Penetrating research has shown the way to it.” — Ibn Khaldun This book probes the nature, scope, and methods of ’ilm al- ’umran, the new science of human social organization, as it is developed in Ibn Khaldun’s 14th-century masterpiece, the Mugaddimah. It explores his ideas and observations on society, culture, socialization, social control, the state, asabiyah (social solidarity), history as a cyclical movement, urbanization, and the typology of badawa (primitive life) and hadara (civilized life or urbanism). Through a comparative perspective, this study illustrates that Khaldun’s ideas about society have conceptually preceded those of Machiavelli, Vico, and Turgot, as well as those of Montesqueau, Comte, Durkheim, Gumplowicz, Spengler, Tonnies, and even Marx. Society, State, and Urbanism demonstrates that Ibn Khaldun’s thought is relevant to contemporary sociological theory, and that his very language differs little from that of classical and modern sociologists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ibn Khaldun and Tamerlane by Anonim Pdf