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"This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldåun (d. 1406), a text that has been studied up to the present as a work on historiography. It argues that the Muqaddima is also a comprehensive treatise on classical Arab-Islamic culture and provides a picture of classical Arab-Islamic aesthetics in its totality. The theme of the book is the intrinsic connection between beauty and knowledge in the Muqaddima. Whenever Ibn Khaldåun deals with the problem of knowledge and science

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Author

Giovanna Lelli

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367567682

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Islam

Updated

2026-03-25