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Ibn Khaldun
Yves Lacoste
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Description for Ibn Khaldun
Paperback. Translator(s): Macey, D. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFM; BGH; HBG; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860917892
SKU
V9780860917892
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About Yves Lacoste
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 ... Read more
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