An Arab Philosophy of History: Selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis eric hobsbawm In the famous Symposium and

In the famous Symposium and Phaedrus

in two volumes

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In this work

Other contributors then examine each case in detail through a lively commentary-and-response format

An Arab Philosophy of History: Selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis eric hobsbawm In the famous Symposium andThe Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun are in many ways the most remarkable manifestation of Islamic philosophical thought. Not only did Ibn Khaldun sum up the accumulated knowledge and leading doctrines of his civilization, but in many fields he broke new ground and anticipated the findings of Western social scientists of the last two centuries. The passages have been grouped to illustrate Ibn Khaldun's views on: Historical, Method, Geography, Economics,