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 ...
Ibn Khaldun was not a philosopher. He sought to transform the historical discipline into a “philosophical science,” a science like mathematics. In Eric Ormsby’s review of Robert Irwin’s new book “Ibn ...
Mr. Irwin, a novelist as well as a scholar of medieval Islam, traces the vicissitudes of Ibn Khaldun’s tumultuous career in a vivid narrative. Ibn Khaldun was both a thinker and a man of action who ...
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 ...