This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima. In this chapter, entitled The Book of Knowledge (Kitab al'Ilm), Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about knowledge and science and its relationship with human social organisation and the est[...]
The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldun has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition, how[...]
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including phil[...]
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima,[...]
A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and statesman.
The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldun has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition, how[...]
Ibn Khaldun er kjent som en av 1400-tallets store vitenskapsmenn og tenkere, blantannet kalt "araberverdenens Descartes". Al-Muqaddimah er introduksjonen til hans flere tusen siders encyklopediske Kitab al-?bar (Boken om visdommene, 1377). Her utvikles en systematisk metode for å beskrive, analyser[...]
Denna utgåva är en översättning av al-Muqaddima eller "Introduktionen" till en omfattande världshistoria, skriven på 1300-talet av den arabiske historikern Ibn Khaldun. Fastän den egentligen är en inledning till historien, behandlar al-Muqaddima i nästan encyklopedisk detalj historiefilosof[...]