These are pretty unusual encomia for a 14th-century North African historian—but then Ibn Khaldun was an unusually gifted man. His Muqaddimah is a book-length introduction—or prolegomena—to a much ...

“In his book Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun considers the field of historical social existence as an independent field of study. This is the first time in the history of science and philosoph ...

Ibn Khaldun’s ideas, whether consciously or unconsciously, were hardly foreign to the philosophy of Zionism. From A.D. Gordon to the spiritual essays of HaRav Kook, from HaShomer to the Palmah ...

The universality of Ibn-i-Khaldun’s philosophy has kept alive his thoughts even after passage of seven decades. While going through his books, Irfan Siddiqui said, it looks like that the social ...

Dale points out that few people have analyzed the Muqaddimah in the context of the Greco-Islamic philosophy that informs Ibn Khaldun's model, though he traces elements of the philosophy of ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin and Hugh Kennedy discuss the life and ideas of the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun “It is (Al-Muqaddimah) a philosophy of history which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever yet been created by any mind in any time or place.” ...

The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun “It is (Al-Muqaddimah) a philosophy of history which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever yet been created by any mind in any time or place.” ...