Orange Trees of Marrakesh - Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Frederic Dale is Professor Emeritus of History and Distinguished University Scholar at The Ohio State University. Klappentext The Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to explain the underlying causes of events such as the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. As Stephen Dale shows, this work was the first structural history and historical sociology, four centuries before the European Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung The Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to explain the underlying causes of events such as the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. As Stephen Dale shows! this work was the first structural history and historical sociology! four centuries before the European Enlightenment.

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• Authors: Stephen Fr. Dale, Stephen Frederi Dale, Stephen Frederic Dale, Dale Stephen Frederic
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780674967656
• ISBN: 978-0-674-96765-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Historiography, Medieval History, Historiography, c 1000 CE to c 1500, African History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, North Africa, Biography: historical, political and military, African history: pre-colonial period