{"product_id":"ibn-khaldun-political-thought-paperback-softback-9781009328753","title":"Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009328753","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIbn Khaldūn: Political Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePresents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher Ibn Khaldūn, stressing their enduring relevance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIbn Khaldun (Author), Gabriel Martinez-Gros (Edited by), Anna Bailey Galietti (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009328753, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e291 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIbn Khaldūn is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance. Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldūn's work was the most impressive endeavour to build a theory out of history ever undertaken before the nineteenth century. However, translators and historians discovered Ibn Khaldūn at the time when new revolutionary economic and political conditions were dismissive of his philosophy. In this edition, Gabriel Martinez-Gros brings Ibn Khaldūn's political thought to the forefront, exploring his theories in the context of his era, but also emphasizing their profound resonances with modern society. Far from the caricature of Ibn Khaldūn as a 'tribal philosopher', Martinez-Gros shows that Ibn Khaldūn's thought is about creating wealth in an agrarian society, concerned with economic concepts, demography, war and violence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGeneral Introduction: Ibn Khaldūn: A Theory for Our Time?\u003cbr\u003e Part I. On History: 1. History is a branch of philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 2. Errors to which historians are prone\u003cbr\u003e Part II. On Combat Solidarities: 3. Man is a social animal\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bedouins are naturally courageous, much more so than sedentary peoples\u003cbr\u003e 5. On combat solidarities, and the conditions in which their strength declines\u003cbr\u003e 6. Bedouin nations are more skilled at conquest than other nations\u003cbr\u003e 7. As long as combat solidarities exist among members of the same nation, the monarchy will remain in that nation's control, even if power changes hands between its various branches\u003cbr\u003e 8. When the Arabs take control of cultivated territories, they quickly bring about their ruin\u003cbr\u003e Part III. On The State: 9. States and universal dynasties are built by tribes and combat solidarities\u003cbr\u003e 10. A religious cause endows a nascent dynasty with force in addition to the combat solidarities derived from the number of its supporters\u003cbr\u003e 11. Every dynasty controls a finite number of domains and territories, which cannot be exceeded\u003cbr\u003e 12. It is natural for the sovereign to isolate himself in his glory, seeking peace and comfort\u003cbr\u003e 13. The leader of the dynasty puts his clients and those whom he has reared before his kin and his own combat solidarities\u003cbr\u003e 14. The caliphate\u003cbr\u003e the kingdom of the Jews\u003cbr\u003e and the pope and the emperor in Christendom\u003cbr\u003e 15. On war\u003cbr\u003e 16. On taxation\u003cbr\u003e 17. The dissolution of a dynasty\u003cbr\u003e 18. A nascent dynasty cannot overthrow the sitting dynasty in a single blow\u003cbr\u003e victory must come in time\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Cities: 19. States precede cities and capitals\u003cbr\u003e the latter cannot exist without the prior existence of the state\u003cbr\u003e 20. On the construction and organization of cities\u003cbr\u003e 21. The superiority of urban centres and cities, the prosperity of their inhabitants, and the amount of spending in their markets are based on the size of their populations\u003cbr\u003e 22. On prices in cities\u003cbr\u003e 23. Sedentary civilization is the highest and final degree of any civilization\u003cbr\u003e for this reason, it is destined to decay and disintegrate\u003cbr\u003e 24. On military and civil functions, and their respective roles in the rise and fall of capital cities\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Earning a Living\u003cbr\u003e 25. On the true meaning of 'subsistence' and 'profit'\u003cbr\u003e commentary on these two terms\u003cbr\u003e profit as the value of human labour\u003cbr\u003e 26. Happiness and profit generally go to those who are skilled at flattery and know when to bend the knee\u003cbr\u003e 27. Crafts and professions cannot fully flourish if sedentary civilization and population growth are not flourishing as well\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Sciences: 28. Sciences are concentrated in centres of high population density, where sedentary civilization is firmly entrenched\u003cbr\u003e 29. The categories of the intellectual sciences\u003cbr\u003e 30. The burden of the sciences in Islam fell primarily upon the shoulder of the Persians\u003cbr\u003e 31. Learning a language is like mastering any other craft\u003cbr\u003e Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn's Universal History\u003cbr\u003e 32. On the origins of the Hilālī invasions\u003cbr\u003e 33. Succession in Tlemcen: the assassination of the sultan Abū Ḥammū and the accession of his son, Abū Tāshfīn (1318)\u003cbr\u003e 34. The history of the kingdom of Granada (1238–1492)\u003cbr\u003e 35. A short history of Islam.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316695494936,"sku":"9781009328753","price":22.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009328753i.jpg?v=1781821594","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ibn-khaldun-political-thought-paperback-softback-9781009328753","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}