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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations and Short Titles
Introduction
1. The Sacred and the Secular
Focus and Distraction
Poetry and Music
Dress and Display
Dunyā and Dīn—in Wine, War, and Love
Play, the Hunt, and the Freedom of the Dandy
2. Humanism and Islamic Ethics
Islamic Ethics in Theory and Practice
Miskawayh’s Courtly Humanism
Ghazālī ’s Appropriation
3. Being and Knowing
Being and Becoming
Knowledge as a Value
4. The Rise of Universal Historiography
The Birth of Arabic Historiography
The Roots of Annalistic
Balādhurī’s Narrative Strategy
Greek and Biblical Models
Universal History
Tabarī’s Synthesis
Saadiah’s Historical Orientation
Mas’ūdī
The Triumph of Synthetic History
Miskawayh’s Historiography
Local Chronicles and Biographical Dictionaries
Rashīd al-Dīn ’s Universal History
Ibn Khaldūn
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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