The Kalduniya in Turkish thought

This time, talking about Ibn Khaldun will not be repetitive or cliché, but rather mostly new to the Arab reader, who will find himself facing a new, unfamiliar study about Ibn Khaldun, through which he can explore the significant influence Ibn Khaldun left on Turkish historians and thinkers, from the Ottomans and contemporaries. Just as there are comparative literary studies, we can call this study a comparative intellectual study, revealing the faces of convergence between Arab and Turkish thought in the last five centuries, by observing the impact of Ibn Khaldun’s introduction on Ottoman historians, social thought, ethics, those engaged in classifying sciences during the Ottoman era, and political thought during the Ottoman and contemporary periods. This study is considered the cornerstone for comparative intellectual studies in the field of Oriental studies. And if it manages to draw the attention of young researchers to the importance of studying the aspects of convergence between Arab and Turkish thought in particular, and Arab and Eastern thought in general, it will have laid the foundation for a new branch of Oriental studies, which is comparative thought. It is a new branch in Oriental studies, no less important than comparative literary studies, if not more so.