In his Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun wrote, “The Arabs ate camels and acquired their jealousy and harshness. The Turks ate horses and acquired their ferocity and strength.” Ibn al-Qayyim said, “Whoever eats ...

MP SPEAKS | I feel compelled to respond to the opinion that PAS may have become a “saturated” party. But first of all, let me state that in all situations, PAS not only has thrived but it has grown ...

The dangerous skirmish with our hostile larger neighbour has sparked a rare moment of national solidarity within Pakistan — a welcome feeling given the immense political polarisation we have been ...

In the Western imagination, the Sahara is an empty space, a state of nature. Some locals shared this view before Europeans discovered the savannah south of the sands. Ibn Khaldun, the polymath born in ...

Philosophy East and West, Vol. 69, No. 3, Politics, Nature, and Society — The Actuality of North African Philosopher Ibn Khaldūn (JULY 2019), pp. 666-683 (18 pages) This essay examines Ibn Khaldūn’s ...

It will come as a surprise to many that the intellectual origins of supply-side economics can be traced to the 14th-century Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun. In his masterwork, 'The Muqaddimah', he ...

George A. Khaldun, a member of the Class of 1973, has devoted his considerable skill as an administrator, expertise as an educator, and passion as a reformer to bettering the lives of young people in ...

A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city, in ...

At the end of the 18th century, when both industrialization and colonialism were emergent, the British were trying to figure out the most efficient ways to control a large number of people. The man of ...