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Kitab Al-ibar, Wa Diwan Al-mobtadae Wa Al-khabar
''Kitāb al-ʻIbar'' ("Book of Lessons") is a 14th-century book written by the Arab sociologist and historian Ibn Khaldun. Its full name is a rhyming couplet: ''Kitāb al-ʻIbar, wa-Dīwān al-Mubtadaʼ wa-l-Khabar, fī Taʼrīkh al-ʻArab wa-l-Barbar, wa-Man ʻĀṣarahum min Dhawī ash-Shaʼn al-Akbār'' ( ar, كتاب العبر، وديوان المبتدأ والخبر). The book is a historical encyclopedia consisting of seven volumes and was also printed in Arabic under the title “History of Ibn Khaldun”. Contents ''Kitab al-Ibar'' began as a history of the Berbers and expanded to a universal history in seven books. :Book 1; ''Al-Muqaddimah'' ('The Introduction'), a socio-economic-geographical universal history of empires, and the best known of his works. :Books 2-5; World History up to the author's own time. :Books 6-7; Historiography of the Berbers and the Maghreb. Khaldun departs from the classical style of Arab historians by synthesising multiple, sometimes co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of course, Ibn Khaldun as an Arab here speaking, for he claims Arab descent through the male line.". The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State', Halim Barakat (University of California Press, 1993), p. 48;"The renowned Arab sociologist-historian Ibn Khaldun first interpreted Arab history in terms of badu versus hadar conflicts and struggles for power." Ibn Khaldun', M. Talbi, ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. III, ed. B. Lewis, V.L. Menage, C. Pellat, J. Schacht, (Brill, 1986), 825; "Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis, on I Ramadan 732/27 May 1332, in an Arab family which came originally from the Hadramawt and had been settled at Seville since the beginning of the Muslim conquest...." Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History: A Study in the Philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
