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Ibn Khaldun

Autor Yves Lacoste, Lascoste Traducere de David Macey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 1997
Ibn Khaldun, the most celebrated thinker of the Muslim Middle Ages, is the subject of this intriguing study. Lacoste opens with a general description of the Maghreb in the later Middle Ages, focusing primarily on mercantile trade, especially in gold, and the social and economic structures of tribal life. He unravels Khaldun’s fascinating biography—born of an aristocratic family in Tunis in 1332, he had an extraordinary diplomatic and military career in the turbulent wars and politics of Western Islam in the fourteenth century; withdrew to a desert retreat in 1375, and finally emigrated to Egypt.

Lacoste then turns his attention to Ibn Khaldun’s majestic Universal History, arguably the greatest single synthesis produced by medieval thought anywhere. His account of Ibn Khaldun’s thought is a remarkable, sympathetic work of recovery, not only uncovering its basic categories but exploring its contemporary relevance to an understanding of the Arab world.

Thinkers as diverse as Ernest Gellner and Arnold Toynbee have paid tribute to the lasting fertility of Ibn Khaldun’s work. English-speaking readers now have an opportunity to appreciate some of the richness and diversity of the Arab intellectual heritage.
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ISBN-13: 9780860917892
ISBN-10: 0860917894
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: VERSO

Notă biografică

Yves Lacoste is an eminent and internationally respected geographer. He is the editor of a well-known French journal, Hérodote, and the author of a number of works including The Geography of Underdevelopment and Unity and Diversity of the Third World.

David Macey translated some twenty books from French to English. He was the author of Lacan in Context, the acclaimed The Lives of Michel Foucault, The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory and Frantz Fanon: A Biography. He died in October 2011.