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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Ibn Khaldun"”.
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Ibn Khaldun and the city : a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo
This essay is an application of Ibn Khaldun's theories of culture and civilization to a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo . The study is based on the premise that the city is an historical process governed by an underlying set of cultural conditions. Those conditions manifest …
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Ibn Khaldun and the Modern Social Sciences: A Comparative Theoretical Inquiry into Society, the State, and Revolution
… that has attempted to bring the work of Ibn Khaldun, the late 14th century Tunisian jurist and historian, into the mainstream of historiographic, political, and sociological learning. Why Ibn Khaldun? What makes his work stand out among the classics of pre-modern and early-modern …
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The Political Aspects of Ibn Khaldun's Study of Culture and History
The fourteenth-century scholar 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun proclaims in his Muqaddima the establishment of a new science called the science of culture ('ilm al-'umran). The primary subject of investigation of this science is aspects of human social organization. The ostensible purpose …
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The shadow of Muhammed : developing a charismatic leadership model for the Islamic world
… are examined using the writings of Ibn Khaldun and the individual case studies of the Mahdi of the Sudan, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Osama bin Laden. The policy implications - for both cooperation and confrontation with a leader of this type - that flow from the model are also …