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The Polymath
Bensalem Himmich
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| Book Summary |
This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularly material from the writer's works, to construct the personal and intellectual universe of a fourteenth-century genius. The dominant concern of the novel -- the uneasy relationship between intellectuals and political power, between scholars and authority -- addresses our times through the transparent veil of history.
In the first part of the novel, we are introduced to the mind of Ibn Khaldun as he dictates his work to his scribe and interlocutor. The second part delves into the heart of the man and his retrieval of a measure of happiness and affection in a remarriage, after the drowning of his first wife and their children at sea. Finally we see Ibn Khaldun as a man of action, trying to minimize the imminent horrors of invading armies and averting the sack of Damascus by Tamerlane, only to spend his last years lonely and destitute, having been fired from his post as qadi, his wife having gone to Morocco, and his attempts at saving the political situation having come to nil. |
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Language: English
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press (2003)
ISBN-10: 9774162528
ISBN-13: 9789774162527
Genre: Arabic Literature
Size: 15.1 cm x 24.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 639 grams
Condition: New
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