The epistemology of Ibn Khaldūn

Author(s)

• Ahmad, Zaid

Bibliographic Information

The epistemology of Ibn Khaldūn

Zaid Ahmad

（Culture and civilization in the Middle East）

RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

• : (alk. paper)
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima. In this chapter, entitled The Book of Knowledge (Kitab al'Ilm), Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about knowledge and science and its relationship with human social organisation and the establishment of a civilisation.

Table of Contents

• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 OF THE MUQADDIMA
• Chapter 2 MAN AS THINKING ANIMAL
• Chapter 3 THE DIVISION OF THE SCIENCES
• Chapter 4 The INTELLECTUAL SCIENCES
• Chapter 5 SCHOLARSHIP AS A SCIENCE AND PEDAGOGICAL METHOD
• Chapter 6 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
• Chapter 7 CONCLUSIONS AND FINDINGS
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA70097179
• ISBN:
  • 0415302854
  • 9780415612753
• LCCN: 2002037181
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 192 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D16.7.I23
  • DC21 : 001/.092
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ibn Khaldūn, 1337-1406. Kitāb al-ʿibar. al-Muqaddimah
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Theory of
  • LCSH : Civilization, Islamic
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA40381195