IBN KHALDUN-Philosophy Of History

Have our historical and cultural sciences made philosophy superfluous, or are they themselves, on the contrary, in dire need of a philosophical foundation? This book attempts to clarify this problem through the study of perhaps the only great thinker who considered the problems of history and culture, and founded a special science to deal with them, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers. This is the first study of Ibn Khaldün which is not an apology either for the modern social sciences or for the ‘modern’ character of Ibn Khaldün ‘s thought, but a thoroughgoing analysis and interpretation of his text. This study concentrates on examining the principles of Ibn Khaldün’s new science of culture and explaining the precise nature of these principles against the background of Classical and Islamic Philosophy. “Muhsin Mahdi represents a rare blending of thorough familiarity with the Arabic language and Islamic history and an equally competent knowledge of medieval philosophy.” WALTER J. FISCHEL, Journal of Near Eastern Studies. AUTHOR: PROF ZIAUDDIN AHMAD ISBN 978-983-9541-52-6