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SPECIAL ISSUE: POLITICS, NATURE, AND SOCIETY — THE ACTUALITY OF NORTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHER IBN KHALDŪN Tamara Albertini Philosophy Department, University of Hawai‘iatMānoa tamaraa@hawaii.edu I am most grateful to Philosophy East and West for publishing a special issue on philosopher Ibn Khaldūn (732–808 A.H./A.D. 1332–1406). The time is particularly propitious since his ideas are currently permeating the political and cultural climate of his native North Africa. The team contributing to the present issue comprises six authors from four different continents. Ridha Chennoufi and Mehdi Saiden are philosophers from the University of Tunis (Tunisia), the city in which Ibn Khaldūn was born. M. Akif Kayapınar is a political scientist teaching at Istanbul Sehir University (Turkey), while Jeremy Kleidosty does research at the Centre of Excellence on Reason and Religious Recognition, University of Helsinki (Finland). Cynthia Scheopner is a Ph.D. recipient from the Department of Philosophy and a coordinator in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i. Finally, Lenn E. Goodman is a philosopher from Vanderbilt University and an expert on Jewish and Islamic thought. The diversity among these scholars is in itself a testament to Ibn Khaldūn, whose philosophy has inspired scholars in different countries and of various
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Oct 3, 2019
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