Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Ibn Khaldun's Autobiography and his Character
Ibn Khaldun's Science of Society
Ibn Khaldun on Education and Knowledge
The Reception of Ibn Khaldun
The Significance of Ibn Khaldun for the Modern Social Sciences
Further Reading and Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Syed Farid Alatas teaches sociology at the National University of Singapore and is also head of its Department of Malay Studies. He has authored Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State (1997) and Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (2006). He has co-edited Asian Inter-Faith Dialogue: Perspectives on Religion, Education and Social
Cohesion (2003) and Asian Anthropology (2005). He has also contributed to scholarly journals and essay collections, several articles on Ibn Khaldun, with particular emphasis on the application of his concepts and methodology in contemporary
issues in the social sciences, educational philosophy, and culture.