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The World Until 1400 According to Ibn Khaldun

The World Until 1400 According to Ibn Khaldun

by Routledge
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Abdesselam Cheddadi
Paperback, 220 pages
9781032931913

 

A Global History of Humanity

 

This book explores the significance of Ibn Khaldun’s magnum opus, the Book of Examples, to our understanding of human history and the disciplines of anthropology, history, and sociology.

 

Operating outside of the confines of the Western intellectual tradition, Ibn Khaldun’s the Book of Examples is perhaps the first attempt to propose a global history of humanity. In doing so, Ibn Khaldun pioneered approaches from what we today term sociology, anthropology, ecology, economics, geography, and urban studies. Drawing upon the Muqaddima and the other volumes of the Kitab al-Ibar, Cheddadi proposes novel ways of viewing human history and classifying societies. While Ibn Khaldun’s attempts to develop a true global history were ultimately flawed, Cheddadi argues that they nevertheless offer pertinent lessons for our attempts to write a global history and to understand the world today.

 

This stimulating and original work on a seminal figure in Islamic sociology and historiography will be of interest to students and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.

 

Contents
Part I: Introduction
1. How to approach Ibn Khaldûn today? A Question of Global History
2. Ibn Khaldûn: A Historian of the Premodern Period
3. Ibn Khaldûn’s Program: The Science of ‘Umran and the Rewriting of History
Part II: A General Anthropology
4. Anthropological Representations Drawn from the Islamic Background
5. Natural Conditions, Supernatural Conditions, Thought
6. Society, Power, Economy
Part III: A Sociology of Rural and Urban Societies
7. Rural Societies, Power, States
8. Urban Society and the Economic System
9. Urban Society and the Cultural System
Part IV: History
10. History in the Muqaddima
11. History in the Narrative Part of The Book of Examples
Part V: Conclusions
12. Methodology
13. Ibn Khaldûn and His Work in a Global History Perspective
14. The World described by Ibn Khaldûn
15. Ibn Khaldûn’s Contributions to Reflection on Global History