Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) are separated by five centuries of history and two civilisations and yet they exhibit some very important similarities. I discovered this when I was ...

An avid reader, great traveller, experienced politician and extraordinary historian, Ibn Khaldun was one of the greatest and most influential men in the medieval Arab World “He who has not seen Cairo ...

Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, a 14th-century Muslim philosopher, is not only a pioneer in social sciences, but also an alternative, according to Recep Senturk, the president of the Ibn Haldun University ...

In his Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun wrote, “The Arabs ate camels and acquired their jealousy and harshness. The Turks ate horses ...

The other day, I asked my sociology students a question. It was a simple question but one that carried an answer of profound significance. Khaldun’s work was a definite break from the past as history ...

Ronald Reagan once cited him. Mark Zuckerberg picked his great work as one of his book club choices. And the British historian Arnold Toynbee described it “as undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind ...

It was recently reported in the Kurdish media that Turkey's Prime Minister was visiting with Iran to suggest a regional alliance between the Syrians and themselves to prevent the emergence of an ...

Walmart had its worst day in almost 30 years on Wednesday, after the company released dire predictions for profitability. While analysts had expected modest growth of 4 percent in the coming fiscal ...

In a noteworthy essay in the Financial Times entitled "West needs to go back to capitalist basics", Dr. Mahathir Mohamad forthrightly observes that: "A new 'Bretton Woods' should be convened with ...

According to Esref Altas, an associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Khaldun was a good observer who saw the outer face of historical social events. Science historians argue that the ...