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Rewriting the History of Humanity. Volume I The Fragmentary Age
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In Rewriting the History of Humanity: The Fragmentary Age, Abdesselam Cheddadi offers a major new interpretation of human history from the origins of humanity to the threshold of modern globalization. Combining historical theory, anthropology, sociology, and global history, the book challenges linear and Eurocentric narratives by proposing a new framework centered on “Relevant Spatio-Temporal Units,” means of power, and ontological initiative. Drawing inspiration from Ibn Khaldun while engaging critically with thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, Weber, Wallerstein, and contemporary global historians, Cheddadi redefines how historical formations can be compared without reducing their plurality to a single civilizational model.
Abdesselam Cheddadi, historian and philosopher, is Professor Emeritus at Mohammed V University in Morocco, former visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton and Yale Universities in the United States, and former Associate Director of Studies at the École des Hautes en Social Sciences in Paris. He published many works, such as an edition and translation of Ibn Khaldun, The Book of Examples. 2002–2012, 2 vols. Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade; an edition of Ibn Khaldun, Al-Muqaddima. 2005, 5 vols. Témara, Maison des Arts, des Sciences et des Lettres; as well as the following original works The Arabs and the Appropriation of History. 2004, Paris, Actes Sud/Sindbad; Ibn Khaldun: The Man and the Theorist of Civilization. 2006, Paris, Gallimard; The World Until 1400 According to Ibn Khaldun: A Global History of Humanity. 2025, London, Routledge.
Historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, advanced students, and educated general readers worldwide.