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Snap Judgment: Books.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz, Liat Radcliffe, Vibhuti Patel
Grace and Power By Sally Bedell Smith
Smith has made a career out of turning the lives of bold-faced names into meticulously researched biographies. This time, she targets the most glamorous couple to inhabit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In "Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House," Smith chronicles Jack and Jackie's highs and lows: heroic diplomacy, prodigious infidelity and a sparkling intellectual and social life unsurpassed by their successors. As in her previous biographies of William Paley, Pamela Harriman and Princess Diana, Smith leaves no detail unturned. It may overwhelm a casual reader, but it will satisfy any Kennedy junkie.
--Barbara Kantrowitz
The Polymath By Bensalem Himmich
In this historical novel, we meet perhaps the most famous of all Arab intellectuals, the 14th-century historian and judge Ibn Khaldun. It is near the end of his life, and Khaldun has settled in Cairo after decades of ...
- Ibn Khaldun: dynastic change and its economic consequences.
- Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) Alrefai, Ahmed Brun, Michael March 22, 1994 700+ words
INTRODUCTION IBN KHALDUN WAS BORN IN TUNISIA IN 1332 and died...features of expansion and contraction. Ibn Khaldun is known for his history of the world...principles and patterns, for here Ibn Khaldun appears as a sociologist and economist...
- Ibn Khaldun Centre has key role in advancing knowledge, development in Egypt,...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire July 1, 2003 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-1 July 2003-UN: Ibn Khaldun Centre has key role in advancing knowledge...ceremony marking the re-opening of the Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies, delivered...greetings to this re-opening of the Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies, the...
- Ibn Khaldun: The master sociologist in retrospect.
- Newspaper article from: The New Nation (Dhaka, India) May 27, 2009 700+ words
Dhaka, May 27 -- Ibn Khaldun, who has been described as one...Din Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun al-tunisi al-hadrami (1332...Rosenthal. Over 19th and 20th centuries Ibn Khaldun featured rarely in the Western discourse...
- Encounter of Civilizations: IBN Khaldun exhibit opens at headquarters.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire December 15, 2006 700+ words
...UN: Encounter of Civilizations: IBN Khaldun exhibit opens at headquarters(C...titled "Encounter of Civilizations: Ibn Khaldun" will be on display in the Main Gallery...exhibit explores the life and work of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a social historian...
- What happened to the ancient Libyans? Chasing sources across the Sahara from...
- Magazine article from: Journal of World History Smith, Richard L. December 1, 2003 700+ words
...century B.C.E., the same people Ibn Khaldun wrote about under the name "Sanhaja...ninth century and reaching its acme with Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth. Herodotus's Libyans...millennium, and between al-Ya'qubi and Ibn Khaldun, a half millennium, than between Procopius...
- Ibn Khaldun on the fate of Islamic science after the 11th century.
- Magazine article from: Islam & Science Abdalla, Mohamad June 22, 2007 700+ words
...understanding what happened. Keywords: Islamic science; Ibn Khaldun; golden age of Islamic science; decline theory; handmaiden...1883, twenty-one years after the French translation of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah, Joseph Ernest Renan (1823-1892) declares...
- Ibn Khaldun, Abd al-Rahman
- Reference information from: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy SIMON BLACKBURN January 1, 1996 700+ words
Ibn Khaldun, Abd al-Rahman (1336–1406) The Islamic historian is remembered in philosophy principally for a simple version...
- Ministry invites Sohar berth bids.(OMAN)(Ibn Khaldun Consulting...
- Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest December 2, 2005 700+ words
...in addition to dredging work for a bulk liquids berth and a 450-metre quay wall. The consultant to the Transport & Communications Ministry is me UK's Halcrow with the local Ibn Khaldun Consulting Engineers (MEED 20:5:05).
