The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man

The Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to explain the underlying causes of events such as the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. As Stephen Dale shows, this work was the first structural history and historical sociology, four centuries before the European Enlightenment.

• | By (Author): Stephen Frederic Dale (Author)
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674967658
• | ISBN-13: 9780674967656