Robert Irwin <br/><br/>
Ibn khaldun:  An Intellectual Biography 

 - 243 p.,  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Ibn Khaldun among the ruins -- The game of thrones in fourteenth-century North Africa -- The nomads, their virtues and their place in history -- Underpinning the methodology of the Muqaddima: philosophy, theology and jurisprudence -- Ibn khaldun's sojourn among the Mamluks in Egypt -- The sufi mystic -- Messages from the dark side -- Economics before economics had been invented -- Teaching and writing: what Ibn Khaldun did for a living -- The strange afterlife of the Muqaddima -- Ending up. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691174662 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historians--Islamic Empire--Biography<br/>Ibn Khaldun<br/>Historiography--Islamic Empire<br/>Islamic civilization