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Incorporates a fundamental Arab contribution into the general curriculum of sociology of law and politics
Explores the interconnection of the sociological, philosophical, scientific and historical aspects in Ibn Khaldun’s work
Discusses the application of Ibn Khaldun’s theoretical perspectives to the present times
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents Ibn Khaldūn's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldūn—scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge—wrote a revolutionary sociological-philosophical treatise, the Muqaddima. This book places his broad, complex, and refined treatise against the background of the Islamo-Greek culture of his time and analyses its main sociological, but also philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives. Finally, thanks to its "universalisable" core, the author recontextualizes the teachings from the Muqaddima to reveal the deep insights it provides into the society, politics and law of contemporary liberal and multicultural civilisations.
A deeper reception of Ibn Khaldūn's perspective is not only important in understanding the Arab contribution to social theory, social history and philosophy, but also diversifies the sociological project beyond the Euro-American standpoint.Given its interdisciplinary appeal, the book addresses a wide readership of students and scholars in sociology, the sociology of law, philosophy of law, philosophy of history, political philosophy, history of civilisations, political sociology, and Arabic studies.
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Annalisa Verza
About the author
Annalisa Verza graduated in law from the University of Bologna, and received her PhD from the Università degli Studi di Milano in analytical philosophy and general theory of law. She teaches philosophy and sociology of law, and her research interests and publications span from contemporary liberalism to multiculturalism, and from legal-philosophical concepts in the Jewish and Muslim traditions to feminism and law, and to the relation between technology, second welfare and society. She has published 3 monographs and about 70 academic articles in major journals in the field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ibn Khaldūn and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power
Authors: Annalisa Verza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70339-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70338-7Published: 01 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70341-7Published: 02 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70339-4Published: 30 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociological Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Legal History