Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- General Introduction
- Part I On History
- Part II On Combat Solidarities
- Part III On the State
- Part IV Cities
- Part V Earning a Living
- Part VI Sciences
- 28 Sciences are concentrated in centres of high population density, where sedentary civilization is firmly entrenched
- 29 The categories of the intellectual sciences
- 30 The burden of the sciences in Islam fell primarily upon the shoulders of the Persians
- 31 Learning a language is like mastering any other craft
- Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn’s Universal History
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
29 - The categories of the intellectual sciences
from Part VI - Sciences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- General Introduction
- Part I On History
- Part II On Combat Solidarities
- Part III On the State
- Part IV Cities
- Part V Earning a Living
- Part VI Sciences
- 28 Sciences are concentrated in centres of high population density, where sedentary civilization is firmly entrenched
- 29 The categories of the intellectual sciences
- 30 The burden of the sciences in Islam fell primarily upon the shoulders of the Persians
- 31 Learning a language is like mastering any other craft
- Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn’s Universal History
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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- Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought , pp. 181 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025