| Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography Subjects: Ibn Khaldun 1332-1406; Historians Arab -- Islamic Empire -- Biography; Historiography -- Islamic Empire; Islamic civilization; No detailed description available for "Ibn Khaldun". Robert Irwin is senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His many books include Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents and Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics, and the Sixties , as well as seven novels. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. |