The way of the nomad

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2789082
AutoresMichael Brett (0000-0002-6332-1755, SOAS University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen58
Número2
Páginas251-269
Fecha de publicación1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00010752
OpenAlexW2005747644
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas25

Ibn Khaldūn runs the risk of being everything or nothing-or, at least, no more than this or that. It has long been customary to separate theMuqaddimaor so-called Prolegomena from the body of theKitāb al-'Ibaror so-called Universal History, and to treat them quite differently as an essay in the philosophy of history distinct from a much more commonplace amalgam of historical information of varying value. Regarded as no more than a vast compilation of historical knowledge in the manner of the time, this great bulk of the work has received much less attention than the much more famous introduction. By concentrating on Ibn Khaldūn's later career in Egypt, Fischel dwelt on the chapters dealing with the Mamlūks and the Mongols, and with Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Judaism. Treating him as an historian of the Marinids in Morocco, Shatzmiller has located the 'Ibaras a whole in the dynastic tradition of Fes.4 The Marinids were a self-consciously Berber dynasty whose official histories fall into the well-established category ofMafākhir al-Barbaror 'Boasts of the Berbers', and it might be said that Ibn Khaldūn's classification of his material according to race merely reflected the origin of hismagnum opusin a familiar literary tradition, from whose constraints he was only freed by the collapse of the political order in the Maghrib in the second half of the fourteenth century

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