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 ...

He emerged having written one of the most important ever studies of the workings of history.Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 ... insurgents.Later in life, Ibn Khaldun worked as a judge in ...

Ibn Khaldun is credited with adumbrating in a 1,000 ... in numerous courts of his day from Spain to Tunisia (where he was born) and as a schemer in most of the courts (this is how at least the ...

Covering a third of a continent, the Sahara has been the scene of migrations, military battles and fights over natural resources.

In order to be able to answer this question, it is necessary to consider the environment in which these two theories were born. Although Ibn Khaldun talked about human social existence going through ...

In Eric Ormsby’s review of Robert Irwin’s new book “Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography” (Books, March 17), he quotes Mr. Irwin’s critique of my earlier work of Ibn Khaldun (“The ...

Had he not been born Jewish, I gathered from knowing him ... instability can be expected and at some point events might spiral out of control. It was Ibn Khaldun’s genius in the 14th century (that ...

his name was Ibn Khaldun; his legacy is a radical change in the way we perceive, compile and analyse history. Born in Tunis to a family that once lived in Seville and that had fled Al-Andalus ...

Ibn Khaldun, the polymath born in Tunis in 1332, witnessed the fragility of political power as he moved between the capitals of the Maghreb in North Africa. His “Muqaddimah” (1377) interprets ...