Syed Farid Alatas

Applying Ibn Khaldun (eBook, ePUB)

The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an overview of Ibn Khaldun and his sociology, discusses reasons for his marginality, and suggests ways to bring Ibn Khaldun into the mainstream through the systematic application of his theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317593997
• Artikelnr.: 41066211

Autorenporträt

Syed Farid Alatas is Head of the Department of Malay Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. His books include Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State in Indonesia and Malaysia (Macmillan, 1997), Alternative Discourse in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (Sage, 2006) and Ibn Khaldun (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. The Errors of History and the New Science: Introduction to the Muqaddimah 2. Ibn Khald
n's Theory of State Formation 3. Ibn Khald
n and Modern Sociology: An Aborted Tradition 4. Pre-modern Readings and Applications of Ibn Khald
n 5. A Khald
nian Theory of Muslim Reform 6. Ibn Khald
n and the Ottoman Modes of Production 7. The Rise and Fall of the Safavid State in a Khald
nian Framework 8. A Khald
nian Perspective on Modern Arab States: Saudi Arabia and Syria 9. Towards a Khald
nian Sociology of the State 10. Bibliographic Remarks and Further Reading. Bibliography