Ibn Khaldun's Concept of "Assabiyya": An Alternative Tool for Understanding Long-Term Politics? Ibn Khaldun's Concept of "Assabiyya": An Alternative Tool for Understanding Long-Term Politics? (pp. 375 ...

According to Esref Altas, an associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Khaldun was a good observer who saw the outer face of historical social events. Science historians argue that the ...

Last week I attended a wonderful conference in the university town of Tübingen, Germany, on “Debt: The First 3500 Years,” to bring ancient historians together to discuss David Graeber’s book Debt: The ...

*Originally published on June 24, 2021. About history, Ibn Khaldun wrote that it is "a discipline widely cultivated among nations and races. It is eagerly sought after. The men in the street, the ...

The publisher seems not to have noticed, but Robert Irwin’s Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton University Press) happens to appear on the 60th anniversary of the first complete English ...

An avid reader, great traveller, experienced politician and extraordinary historian, Ibn Khaldun was one of the greatest and most influential men in the medieval Arab World “He who has not seen Cairo ...