This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in Cairo in 1406. In 1995 a thoroughly annotated Hungarian translation of his masterpiece al-Muqaddima (Introduction to History) was published. Simon then capped his 25 years of studying Ibn Khaldun by describing his construction of history as a scientific endeavor, and his elaboration of patrimonial empires, using his own society as a model. Ibn K…