Table of contents for The science of human social organization : conflicting views on Ibn Khaldun's (1332-1406) Ilm al-umran / Fuad Baali.

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Preface ............................................................ vii
Acknowledgments ..................................................... xi
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION .............................................. 1
      Who Was Ibn Khaldun?    ........................................ 1
      A Genius?  ..................................................... 4
      An Arab?     ..................................................  5
      An Anti-Arab? ...................................................6
      A Religious Person? ............................................ 7
      A Sufite? ..................................................... 10
      The Muquaddimah: A Great Work? ................................ 10
Chapter 2. NOT A SOCIAL SCIENTIST?        ..........................  21
      A Philosopher?  ............................................... 21
      Not a Philosopher? ............................................ 23
      A Social Philosopher? ........................................  26
Chapter 3. A HISTORIAN?    .........................................  31
      Not a Historian? .............................................. 33
Chapter 4. A SOCIOLOGIST? ........................................... 37
      The Founder of Sociology? ..................................... 37
      Did Ibn Khaldun Study Society? ................................ 38
      Was Comte Familiar with Ibn Khaldun's Writings? ................40
      Not a Sociologist? ............................................ 41
Chapter 5. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST?        ................................ 47
      Did Ibn Khaldun Favor Nomadism? .......................... .... 52
      Not an Anthropologist?       .................................  54
Chapter 6. A HUMAN GEOGRAPHER? ...................................... 59
      An Early Town Planner?  ......................................  62
      Not a Geographer?  ............................................ 64
Chapter 7. A SOCIAL EDUCATOR?      .................................  67
      Ibn Khaldun on Education ...................................... 68
      Did Ibn Khaldun Neglect the Individual? ......................  72
Chapter 8. AN ECONOMIST?     .......................................  77
      A Political Economist? .......................... ............. 78
      A Khaldunian Economic Perspective? ............................ 79
      Not an Economist? ............................ ................ 88
Chapter 9. A POLITICAL SCIENTIST? ................................... 95
       A Great Role of Asabiyah? .................................... 95
       The State: A Cyclical Pattern? ............................... 97
       A Pessimist Thinker? .......... ............................. 100
       A Conflict Theorist? ........................................ 101
       A Functionalist? .........................................    102
Chapter 10. CONCLUSION      .........     .......................... 109
Bibliography ....................................................... 121
Index ............................ ................................  143