{"product_id":"orange-trees-of-marrakesh-stephen-frederic-dale-9780674967656","title":"The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his masterwork \u003ci\u003eMuqaddimah\u003c\/i\u003e, the Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a Tunisian descendant of Andalusian scholars and officials in Seville, developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to identify the underlying causes of events. His methodology was derived from Aristotelian notions of nature and causation, and he applied it to create a dialectical model that explained the cyclical rise and fall of North African dynasties. The \u003ci\u003eMuqaddimah\u003c\/i\u003e represents the world's first example of structural history and historical sociology. Four centuries before the European Enlightenment, this work anticipated modern historiography and social science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Stephen F. Dale's \u003ci\u003eThe Orange Trees of Marrakesh\u003c\/i\u003e, Ibn Khaldun emerges as a cultured urban intellectual and professional religious judge who demanded his fellow Muslim historians abandon their worthless tradition of narrative historiography and instead base their works on a philosophically informed understanding of social organizations. His strikingly modern approach to historical research established him as the premodern world's preeminent historical scholar. It also demonstrated his membership in an intellectual lineage that begins with Plato, Aristotle, and Galen; continues with the Greco-Muslim philosophers al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes; and is renewed with Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, and Durkheim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Frederic Dale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674967658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674967656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2015 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016","brand":"Stephen Frederic Dale","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043540103423,"sku":"9780674967656","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f5fdb4e-8be8-406d-ac6b-1059d205da1e.jpg?v=1684967741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/orange-trees-of-marrakesh-stephen-frederic-dale-9780674967656","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}