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Ibn Khaldun
Róbert Simon
其他書名
History as Science and the Patrimonial Empire
出版Akadémiai Kiadó, 2002
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalSocial Science / Islamic Studies
ISBN96305793409789630579346
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W7tmAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in Cairo in 1406. He is the most significant social scientist of Classical Islam, and his work has preserved its message and timeliness until our times. The society he ingeniously described has remained familiar to posterity due to the survival of several elements of patrimonial empire in the Middle East. The up-to-date character of his work is also assured by the fact that he is being considered as the "founding father" of almost half a dozen disciplines. His unique work, al-Muqaddima (Introduction to History), first formulated in 1375, has won the great esteem of later centuries because of two remarkable achievements. One of them is that he, laying the foundations of deeply original theory of civilization, made history a never-before-existing independent discipline. His other great scientific achievement is the model-like elaboration of patrimonial empires, which has preserved its validity even until today in the examination of the forma