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Ibn Khaldun
Overview
Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.
His best-known book is the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which he wrote in six months as he states in his autobiography. It later influenced 17th-century and 19th-century Ottoman historians such as Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa Naima and Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, who used its theories to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. Ibn Khaldun interacted with Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid Empire.
He has been called one of the most prominent Muslim and Arab scholars and historians. Recently, Ibn Khaldun's works have been compared with those of influential European philosophers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Auguste Comte as well as the economists David Ricardo and Adam Smith, suggesting that their ideas found precedent (although not direct influence) in his. He has also been influential on certain modern Islamic thinkers (e.g. those of the traditionalist school).
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In his work on political economy, Ricardo repeated and developed further the same views, but nowhere has he investigated the nature of money as such, as he had done in the case of exchange value, profit, rent, etc.
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Not content with telling the unvarnished tale of the great acts which have been wrought by the heroes of the world's history, and with acknowledging that their inward being corresponds with the import of their acts, the pragmatic historian fancies himself justified and even obliged to trace the supposed secret motives that lie behind the open facts of the record. The historian, in that case, is supposed to write…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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His alliance with the Egyptian priesthood had a most important influence upon Pythagoras, not through the derivation of profound speculative wisdom therefrom, but by the idea obtained through it of the realization of the moral consciousness of man; the individual, he learned, must attend to himself, if inwardly and to the outer world he is to be meritorious and to bring himself, morally formed and fashioned, into…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Ibn Khaldun
Related ideas
- Muqaddimah
- Fiqh
- Avicenna
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Auguste Comte
- Historian
- Al-Ghazali
- Ibn Hazm
- Iberian Peninsula
- Giambattista Vico
- Islamic philosophy
- Karl Marx
- Al-Farabi
- Labor theory of value
- Ash'arism
- Adam Smith
- Sociology
- Middle Ages
- Muhammad
- Augustine of Hippo
- Mecca
- Western world
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Autobiography
Opposing perspectives
- Sociology
- Political science
- Avempace
- Arnold J. Toynbee
- Economics
- Traditionalism (perennialism)
- Social cycle theory
- Al-Mawardi
- Supply and demand
Place in the tradition
Part of Contemporary Islamic philosophy.