Ibn Khaldun: A Desert Journey

Title: Ibn Khaldun: A Desert Journey
Author: Ozkan Oz / Illustratde by Narges Hashemy
ISBN: 9786256309968
Publisher: KETEBE (TURKEY)

This book tells the fictional story of a quest inspired by Ibn Khaldun's ideas about people who lived in cities and the bedouins who lived in the deserts and rural areas as nomads. The events in the story have not taken place in reality. Perhaps some of it did happen since Ibn Khaldun did live among the bedouins for a long time, traveled with them, conversed with them in the night, and observed them closely.

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