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Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought by Gabriel Martinez-Gros and Anna Bailey Galietti
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Ibn Khaldūn is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance. Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldūn's work was the most impressive endeavour to build a theory out of history ever undertaken before the nineteenth century. However, translators and historians discovered Ibn Khaldūn at the time when new revolutionary economic and political conditions were dismissive of his philosophy. In this edition, Gabriel Martinez-Gros brings Ibn Khaldūn's political thought to the forefront, exploring his theories in the context of his era, but also emphasizing their profound resonances with modern society. Far from the caricature of Ibn Khaldūn as a 'tribal philosopher', Martinez-Gros shows that Ibn Khaldūn's thought is about creating wealth in an agrarian society, concerned with economic concepts, demography, war and violence.
Gabriel Martinez-Gros is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Paris Nanterre. In 1999 he founded and co-directed the Institute for Islam and Islamic Societies Studies (in French, IISMM), the main Department of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes dedicated to Islamic Studies. He has published twelve books, four of them inspired by Ibn Khaldûn's thought. His most recent publication is La traîne des empires (2022).
Anna Bailey Galietti is a translator and scholar of Arabic literature. Her previous translations of French academic writing on topics related to the Near East include Antoine Borrut's Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids.
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