Allen Fromherz is Professor of history at Georgia State Univeristy and director of the Middle East Studies Center. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College in 2002 and received his PhD from St. Andrews University in Scotland in Medieval Islamic History in 2006. Dr. Fromherz has held several international fellowships including Fulbright, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center. He was a senior fellow in the humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi (2016). He has lived in various parts of the Gulf, including Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. He is President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). His publications include: Ibn Khaldun (EUP, 2010); The Almohads (IB Tauris, 2012); Qatar (Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2016) and; The Near West (Edinburgh, 2016).
Acknowledgements
Preface
Map: Ibn Khaldun's Mediterranean
Timeline
1. Historian meets History
2. Ibn Khaldun's Early Life
3. Ibn Khaldun the Statesman
4. Egypt
5. Ibn Khaldun's Method
6. Modernity
7. On being Ibn Khaldun
Bibliography
Index.
