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- catalog abstract ""This historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources and 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." "Ibn Khaldun's ideas on history, philosophy, family, friendship, and love are introduced through extracts from his own works and those of other Arab scholars. But beyond the man of the mind there is a man of action: Himmich's multilayered storytelling sees the scholar coping with the imminent horrors of invading armies and his strenuous efforts to avert the sack of Damascus by the Mongol leader Timur Lang, starting a family with a new, much younger wife after the loss of his first family at sea, and contemplating his own role in history and his relationship with God."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "ʻAllāmah. English".
- catalog contributor b13189328.
- catalog contributor b13189329.
- catalog coverage "Egypt Cairo.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""This historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources and 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." "Ibn Khaldun's ideas on history, philosophy, family, friendship, and love are introduced through extracts from his own works and those of other Arab scholars. But beyond the man of the mind there is a man of action: Himmich's multilayered storytelling sees the scholar coping with the imminent horrors of invading armies and his strenuous efforts to avert the sack of Damascus by the Mongol leader Timur Lang, starting a family with a new, much younger wife after the loss of his first family at sea, and contemplating his own role in history and his relationship with God."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244).".
- catalog description "Seven Nights of Dictation -- Between Falling in Love and Operating in the Shadow of Power -- The Journey to Timur Lang, the Scourge of the Century.".
- catalog extent "160 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Polymath.".
- catalog identifier "977424821X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Polymath.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "Translated from the Arabic.".
- catalog language "eng ara".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cairo : American University in Cairo Press ; London : Eurospan,".
- catalog relation "Polymath.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Cairo.".
- catalog spatial "Morocco".
- catalog subject "892.737 21".
- catalog subject "Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Ibn Khaldūn, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, 1332-1406 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Muslim philosophers Morocco Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PJ7832.I445 A55 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Seven Nights of Dictation -- Between Falling in Love and Operating in the Shadow of Power -- The Journey to Timur Lang, the Scourge of the Century.".
- catalog title "The polymath / Bensalem Himmich ; translated by Roger Allen.".
- catalog title "ʻAllāmah. English".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Historical fiction gsafd".
- catalog type "text".