Ibn Khaldun's social philosophy

Studying the works of a historian from the historians does not necessarily require detailing his life story or dwelling long on its details. If the historian has written a news or chronological history and if he limited himself to narrating events as regional or local narratives do, or if he studied and collected documents from a certain era to make a complete story, then his life’s fluctuations are of only supportive importance. That is the case of Ibn Khaldun if we only look at the purely historical part of his works, which alone is an impressive pride. If it were not for what Ibn Khaldun wrote about history, we would today be unaware of what North African history was like from the Islamic conquest until the 14th century. Anyone who wishes to establish a continuity between the Roman Empire, that is, between the Byzantine era and modern times, will inevitably—unless it is Ibn Khaldun—rely on assumptions. And without Ibn Khaldun, we would not have the necessary elements to form a reasonably correct idea of what North Africa was like during the only period in which it was isolated, as it had no more than theoretical connections with other peoples. Number of pages: 160 Year of publication: 2018 Publisher: Arab Pens for Publishing and Distribution