"The Streets Claim Our Children..." (12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright, 1941)

 



"12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States"
Richard Wright (The Viking Press, 1941)
Featuring photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn.




































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O málokteré významné osobnosti středověku, a to nejenom islámského, máme k dispozici tak podrobné a přesné zprávy jako právě o Ibn Chaldúnovi. Vděčíme za to především jemu samému, neboť zanechal vlastní biografii, lze říci, že Ibn Chaldúnova autobiografie je vůbec nejpodrobnější v celé islámské literatuře.  Abdarrahmán ibn Chaldún, severoafrický dějepisec, polyhistor a myslitel, se během pobytu na hradě Kal´at Ibn Saláma rozhodl sepsat dějiny světa, jejichž první vydání dokončil po sedmi letech práce (1375-1382) a až do konce svého života je doplňoval a zdokonaloval. Ibn Chaldún zamýšlel napsat dějiny těch národů a oblastí, s nimiž se islámský svět dostal do styku. Celý spis se skládá ze sedmi svazků: první díl "Úvod" (arab. Mukaddima), druhý až pátý díl obsahuje historii Arabů od dob před islámských až do Ibn Chaldúnovy doby. Hlavním přínosem Ibn Chaldúna pro arabskou a muslimskou historii je jeho výbor materiálu a jeho kritické hodnocení. Z historického hlediska jsou ne...
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