Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Chronology xix
6. Chapter One. Ibn Khaldun among the Ruins 1
7. Chapter Two. The Game of Thrones in Fourteenth-Century North Africa 20
8. Chapter Three. The Nomads, Their Virtues, and Their Place in History 39
9. Chapter Four. Underpinning the Methodology of the Muqaddima: Philosophy, Theology, and Jurisprudence 65
10. Chapter Five. Ibn Khaldun’s Sojourn among the Mamluks in Egypt 84
11. Chapter Six. The Sufi Mystic 108
12. Chapter Seven. Messages from fhe Dark Side 118
13. Chapter Eight. Economics before Economics Had Been Invented 143
14. Chapter Nine. What Ibn Khaldun Did for a Living: Teaching and Writing 153
15. Chapter Ten. The Strange Afterlife of the Muqaddima 162
16. Chapter Eleven. Ending Up 204
17. Notes 209
18. Bibliography 227
19. Index 237