Ibn Khaldun

Book review: Robert Irwin brings 14th century historian Ibn Khaldun back to life in ‘An Intellectual Biography’

Irwin avoids the tendency to Westernize his thoughts, and ignores a plausible influence over Machiavelli, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Marx and Durkheim
Ibn Khaldun’s ideas are a product of his time, and Irwin places him firmly back in his context, in the Arab world during the 14th century

By Lisa Kaaki · 13 June 2018