1st Edition
Applying Ibn Khaldūn The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology
Introduction. 1. The Errors of History and the New Science: Introduction to the Muqaddimah 2. Ibn Khaldūn’s Theory of State Formation 3. Ibn Khaldūn and Modern Sociology: An Aborted Tradition 4. Pre-modern Readings and Applications of Ibn Khaldūn 5. A Khaldūnian Theory of Muslim Reform 6. Ibn Khaldūn and the Ottoman Modes of Production 7. The Rise and Fall of the Safavid State in a Khaldūnian Framework 8. A Khaldūnian Perspective on Modern Arab States: Saudi Arabia and Syria 9. Towards a Khaldūnian Sociology of the State 10. Bibliographic Remarks and Further Reading. Bibliography
Biography
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).
"Credit is due to Alatas for having advanced our understanding and now application of Ibn Khaldun within a cosmopolitan frame of reference"— Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University, Middle East Journal
