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 ...

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 ...

A two-day international conference on 14th century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun's view on power, economics and morality kicked off in Istanbul on Saturday. Renowned scholars from across the globe are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sir, I read the review of the new biography of Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century Arab historian and polymath, with interest (“Light from the east”, Life & Arts, March 3). It was particularly reassuring to ...

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 ...