Ibn Khaldun is better known as a philosopher of history and a sociologist rather that an urban or city planner (in a modern sense of the term). However, as part of his civilization discourse, Ibn Khadun has advanced some ...

Sociologists have generally treated the reports of the Marian apparitions at the Bosnian village of Medjugorje (starting in 1981) as religious phenomena. The later eruption of war in that region, on the other hand, was ...

Discussions on whether or not a shaykh is necessary in suluk (spiritual pathway) have especially intensified in the eighth/fourteenth century, and even after Andalusian scholars had long taken care of this issue, the ...

İbn Haldun’un dönemindeki iktidarı meşrulaştıran bir tarih kuramı ve bir siyaset kuramı ortaya koyduğu iddiası makalenin üzerine inşa edildiği nihai zemini karakterize eder. Haldun’da sadece olanı ele alan ve ampirik yanı ...

Six centuries have passed since the death of the great Andalusian thinker Ibn Khaldun, in his time one of the brightest and most universal minds, who gave us considerable insights in all the fields of social thought. In ...

Ibn Khaldun’s societal and political theory, benefiting from the “filters of critique” of thinkers such as Ghazali and Fahruddin al-Razi, is a masterful application in the field of societal existence of Ibn Sina’s metaphysics. ...

Ibn Khaldun, who is one of the most important figures for 14th century Islamic thought, has constructed a system that is different from the approaches of his contemporaries in the world of Eastern thought and defined his ...

As an Ash‘ari and Maliki jurist, Ibn Khaldun’s various theories, ranging from economics to politics, sociology to philosophy, and history to literature have long been subject of inquiry by prominent scholars. However, his ...