Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- General Introduction
- Part I On History
- Part II On Combat Solidarities
- Part III On the State
- Part IV Cities
- Part V Earning a Living
- Part VI Sciences
- Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn’s Universal History
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Part VI - Sciences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- General Introduction
- Part I On History
- Part II On Combat Solidarities
- Part III On the State
- Part IV Cities
- Part V Earning a Living
- Part VI Sciences
- Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn’s Universal History
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Summary
Four texts drawn from Ibn Khaldûn’s History, especially the last volumes on the Maghreb and the Rihla gharbân wa-sharqân. The theory confronts the historical realities and their apparent resistance to universal schemes. In the last text, Ibn Khaldûn sums up the history of Islam as a passage of the Bedouin political force from the Arabs to the Turks, from the South to the North.
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- Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought , pp. 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025