1st Edition
The World Until 1400 According to Ibn Khaldun A Global History of Humanity
Part I: Introduction
1. How to approach Ibn Khaldûn today? A Question of Global History
2. Ibn Khaldûn: A Historian of the Premodern Period
3. Ibn Khaldûn’s Program: The Science of ‘Umran and the Rewriting of History
Part II: A General Anthropology
4. Anthropological Representations Drawn from the Islamic Background
5. Natural Conditions, Supernatural Conditions, Thought
6. Society, Power, Economy
Conclusion to Part II
Part III: A Sociology of Rural and Urban Societies
7. Rural Societies, Power, States
8. Urban Society and the Economic System
9. Urban Society and the Cultural System
Part IV: History
10. History in the Muqaddima
11. History in the Narrative Part of The Book of Examples
Part V: Conclusions
12. Methodology
13. Ibn Khaldûn and His Work in a Global History Perspective
14. The World described by Ibn Khaldûn
15. Ibn Khaldûn’s Contributions to Reflection on Global History
Biography
Abdesselam Cheddadi is a historian and philosopher, currently Professor Emeritus at Mohammed V University, Morocco. He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Princeton University, a Senior Fullbrighter at Yale University, and an Associate Director of Studies at the École des Hautes en Social Sciences in Paris. He is the author of numerous works on Arab civilization, culture, and education, particularly Islamic historiography and the works of Ibn Khaldun.
