Syed Farid Alatas teaches sociology at the National University of Singapore and is also head of its Department of Malay Studies. He has authored Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State (1997) and Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (2006). He has co-edited Asian Inter-Faith Dialogue: Perspectives on Religion, Education and Social Cohesion (2003) and Asian Anthropology (2005). He has also contributed to scholarly journals and essay collections, several articles on Ibn Khaldun, with particular emphasis on the application of his concepts and methodology in contemporary issues in the social sciences, educational philosophy, and culture.

• PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; IBN KHALDUN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HIS CHARACTER; IBN KHALDUN'S SCIENCE OF SOCIETY; IBN KHALDUN ON EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE; THE RECEPTION OF IBN KHALDUN; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IBN KHALDUN FOR THE MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCES; FURTHER READING AND WORKS CITED; INDEX

Syed Farid Alatas teaches sociology at the National University of Singapore and is also head of its Department of Malay Studies. He has authored Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State (1997) and Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (2006). He has co-edited Asian Inter-Faith Dialogue: Perspectives on Religion, Education and Social Cohesion (2003) and Asian Anthropology (2005). He has also contributed to scholarly journals and essay collections, several articles on Ibn Khaldun, with particular emphasis on the application of his concepts and methodology in contemporary issues in the social sciences, educational philosophy, and culture.

• PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; IBN KHALDUN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HIS CHARACTER; IBN KHALDUN'S SCIENCE OF SOCIETY; IBN KHALDUN ON EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE; THE RECEPTION OF IBN KHALDUN; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IBN KHALDUN FOR THE MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCES; FURTHER READING AND WORKS CITED; INDEX

Syed Farid Alatas teaches sociology at the National University of Singapore and is also head of its Department of Malay Studies. He has authored Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State (1997) and Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (2006). He has co-edited Asian Inter-Faith Dialogue: Perspectives on Religion, Education and Social Cohesion (2003) and Asian Anthropology (2005). He has also contributed to scholarly journals and essay collections, several articles on Ibn Khaldun, with particular emphasis on the application of his concepts and methodology in contemporary issues in the social sciences, educational philosophy, and culture.

• PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; IBN KHALDUN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HIS CHARACTER; IBN KHALDUN'S SCIENCE OF SOCIETY; IBN KHALDUN ON EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE; THE RECEPTION OF IBN KHALDUN; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IBN KHALDUN FOR THE MODERN SOCIAL SCIENCES; FURTHER READING AND WORKS CITED; INDEX