Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

CEU Medievalia. Ibn Khaldūn : An Essay in Reinterpretation / Aziz Al-Azmeh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CEU Medievalia ; 4Publisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9789633864692
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE 2003 IMPRESSION -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURE: ANATOMY OF THE MUQADDIMA -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- CHAPTER ONE. THE PRIMACY OF THE HISTORICAL -- CHAPTER TWO. THE PROBLEMATIZATION OF HISTORY -- CHAPTER THREE. THE HISTORICITY OF KITĀB AL'-IBAR -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ORIENTATIONS -- ADDENDUM TO THE 2003 IMPRESSION -- INDEX
Summary: Since its publication in 1981, this book has established itself as the major new interpretation of the historical concept of Ibn Khaldûn, the great figure of Arab-Islamic letters and of historical thought overall--a figure generally thought to be on a par with Thucydides, Vico, Herder and others of similar stature. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldûn has normally been subjected, both by authors who have sought unduly to modernise his thought, and by those who sought to freeze it in stereotypical models of Islamic philosophy. Ibn Khaldûn is not only a true historical source of his time; he is also taken as the unchallenged sociological and cultural interpreter of medieval North Africa and much of medieval and modern Arab-Islamic culture as well. The validity of his discourse is considered to be so universal as to confer upon his ideas the status of progenitor--or, at least, anticipator--of a great variety of modern ideas.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789633864692

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE 2003 IMPRESSION -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURE: ANATOMY OF THE MUQADDIMA -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- CHAPTER ONE. THE PRIMACY OF THE HISTORICAL -- CHAPTER TWO. THE PROBLEMATIZATION OF HISTORY -- CHAPTER THREE. THE HISTORICITY OF KITĀB AL'-IBAR -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ORIENTATIONS -- ADDENDUM TO THE 2003 IMPRESSION -- INDEX

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Since its publication in 1981, this book has established itself as the major new interpretation of the historical concept of Ibn Khaldûn, the great figure of Arab-Islamic letters and of historical thought overall--a figure generally thought to be on a par with Thucydides, Vico, Herder and others of similar stature. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldûn has normally been subjected, both by authors who have sought unduly to modernise his thought, and by those who sought to freeze it in stereotypical models of Islamic philosophy. Ibn Khaldûn is not only a true historical source of his time; he is also taken as the unchallenged sociological and cultural interpreter of medieval North Africa and much of medieval and modern Arab-Islamic culture as well. The validity of his discourse is considered to be so universal as to confer upon his ideas the status of progenitor--or, at least, anticipator--of a great variety of modern ideas.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)