This book deals with the decisive encounters between East and West, - Islam and Christendom. This is one of the most important subjects of Islamic history, indeed perhaps the most important of all. The encounter between Islam and Christendom in the fields of war or peace, was always decisive and had the most far-reaching effects on their destinies. This work originally published in Arabic is being issued in English for the benefit of Muslims all over the world, ...
A comparative and critical study of the life of the historian and philosopher, Ibn Khaldun, acknowledged by Western critics to be the founder of modern sociology, his intellectual and social legacy, his method and style. The intellectual legacy of Ibn Khaldun is unique among the works of Muslim thought and, notwith-standing the lapse of centuries, still maintains its value, vigour and modernity, and occupies a high place among the monuments of world thought. But ...