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Ibn Khaldoun (Birth of History, Third World Past), by Yves Lacoste
Retracing in particular the way in which the works of the great historian, Ibn khaldoun, have been received in contemporary times, this book also constitutes a decisive contribution to the understanding of the current problems of the Maghreb, and particularly of Algeria.
Ibn Khaldoun (Birth of History, Third World Past), by Yves Lacoste
Ibn Khaldoun's work sheds light on a very important stage in the past of countries which belong to what is called the “Third World”. By making, in the fourteenth century, a scientific analysis of the economic, social and political conditions of medieval North Africa, Ibn Khaldoun in fact posed a number of very complex historical problems, the slow evolution of which determined a long process historical: subject to external influences, which were also decisive, these structures made colonial domination possible in the 19th century; and this has led to the current situation of underdevelopment.
This study, which has become classic, of the work of Ibn Khaldoun, retains all its topicality. Not only has this work made a decisive contribution to the discipline of history, but it still arouses debate today, particularly in the Arab world, where certain radical Islamist currents strongly contest it. Retracing in particular the way in which the works of this great historian have been received in contemporary times, this book also constitutes a decisive contribution to the understanding of the current problems of the Maghreb, and particularly of Algeria.
Table of contents
Preface
- Foreword
- I. Third World Past
- 1. General characters, fundamental structures
- 2. A politician from a large family
- 3. From condottiere to historian
- 4. The myth of the “Arab invasion”
- 5. The crisis of the fourteenth century
- 6. The future of the state
- 7. The indictment of the townspeople
-II . Birth of History
- 1. Thucydides and Ibn Khaldoun
- 2. Historical materialism and dialectical conceptions
- 3. The appearance of historical science
- 4. The historical atmosphere and the rationalist heritage
- 5. The consequences of religious reaction
- Closing .
About the author: Yves Lacoste
Yves Lacoste is a geographer, specialist in geopolitics, founder and director of the review Hérodote. He is the author in particular of Unity and Diversity of the Third World (Maspero, 1980), of the Dictionary of Geopolitics (Flammarion, 1996), and of Water in the World. The battles for life (Larousse, 2007).
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