TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert Irwin
TI  - Ibn khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
SN  - 9780691174662
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Historians
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ibn Khaldun
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Islamic civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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