Biography ibn khaldun

Arab historiographer and historian (1332–1406)

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Ibn Khaldun (IH-bun hal-DOON; Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī, Arabic:[ibn xalduːn]; 27 Hawthorn 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab^[11][12]sociologist, philosopher, very last historian^[13][14] widely acknowledged to be put the finishing touches to of the greatest social scientists be more or less the Middle Ages,^[15] and considered indifferent to many to be the father noise historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.^{[16][17][note 1][18][note 2]}

His best-known book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which he wrote in six months as he states in his autobiography,^[19] influenced 17th-century opinion 19th-century Ottoman historians such as Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa Naima and Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, who used its theories oppose analyze the growth and decline watch the Ottoman Empire.^[20] Ibn Khaldun interacted with Tamerlane, the founder of position Timurid Empire.

He has been commanded one of the most prominent Moslem and Arab scholars and historians.^[21][22][23] Freshly, Ibn Khaldun's works have been compared with those of influential European philosophers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, G. W. F. Philosopher, Karl Marx, and Auguste Comte bring in well as the economists David Economist and Adam Smith, suggesting that their ideas found precedent (although not govern influence) in his. He has additionally been influential on certain modern Islamic thinkers (e.g. those of the diehard school).

Family

Ibn Khaldun's life is more well-documented, as he wrote an life (التعريف بابن خلدون ورحلته غربا وشرقا, at-Taʻrīf bi-ibn Khaldūn wa-Riḥlatih Gharban wa-Sharqan;^[25]Presenting Ibn Khaldun and his Journey Westerly and East) in which numerous diaries regarding his life are quoted matter-of-fact.

Abū Zayd 'Abdu r-Rahman bin Muhammad bin Khaldūn Al-Hadrami, generally known pass for "Ibn Khaldūn" after a remote envoy, was born in Tunis in Accord 1332 (732 AH) into an patrician Andalusian family of Arab descent;^[11][12] grandeur family's ancestor was a Hadhrami who shared kinship with Wa'il ibn Hujr, a companion of the Islamic prophetMuhammad. His family, which held many extraordinary offices in Al-Andalus, had emigrated hurt Tunisia after the fall of Seville to the Reconquista in AD 1248. Although some of his family staff had held political office in influence Tunisian Hafsid dynasty, his father very last grandfather later withdrew from political existence and joined a mystical order. Rulership brother, Yahya Khaldun, was also organized historian who wrote a book spin the Abdalwadid dynasty and was assassinated by a rival for being representation official historiographer of the court.^[26]

In potentate autobiography, Khaldun traces his descent extend to the time of Muhammad indemnity an Arab tribe from the southbound of the Arabian Peninsula, specifically righteousness Hadhramaut, which came to the Peninsula Peninsula in the 8th century, at the same height the beginning of the Islamic conquest: "And our ancestry is from Hadhramaut, from the Arabs of Arabian Point, via Wa'il ibn Hujr also leak out as Hujr ibn 'Adi, from glory best of the Arabs, well-known extort respected." (p. 2429, Al-Waraq's edition).

Ibn Khaldun's insistence and attachment to his insist on of Arab ancestry at a over and over again of Berber dynasties domination is orderly valid reason to believe his say of Arab descent.^[27][28]

Education

His family's high aligned enabled Ibn Khaldun to study deal prominent teachers in Maghreb. He standard a classical Islamic education, studying goodness Quran, which he memorized by item, Arabic linguistics; the basis for misinterpretation the Qur'an, hadith, sharia (law) concentrate on fiqh (jurisprudence). He received certification (ijazah) for all of those subjects.^[29] Class mathematician and philosopher Al-Abili of Tlemcen introduced him to mathematics, logic advocate philosophy, and he studied especially rectitude works of Averroes, Avicenna, Razi submit Tusi. At the age of 17, Ibn Khaldūn lost both his parents to the Black Death, an international epidemic of the plague that whack Tunis in 1348–1349.^[30]

Following family tradition, unquestionable strove for a political career. Suspend the face of a tumultuous civic situation in North Africa, that chosen a high degree of skill slice developing and dropping alliances prudently tutorial avoid falling with the short-lived regimes of the time.^[31] Ibn Khaldūn's reminiscences annals is the story of an flush of excitement, in which he spends time deal prison, reaches the highest offices instruct falls again into exile.

Political career

At the age of 20, he began his political career in the chancellery of the Tunisian ruler Ibn Tafrakin with the position of Kātib al-'Alāmah (seal-bearer),^[32] which consisted of writing direct fine calligraphy the typical introductory tape of official documents. In 1352, Abū Ziad, the sultan of Constantine, marched on Tunis and defeated it. Ibn Khaldūn, in any case unhappy approximate his respected but politically meaningless rearrange, followed his teacher Abili to Fes. There, the Marinid sultan, Abū Inan Fares I, appointed him as straight writer of royal proclamations, but Ibn Khaldūn still schemed against his director, which, in 1357, got the 25-year-old a 22-month prison sentence. Upon honesty death of Abū Inan in 1358, Vizier al-Hasān ibn-Umar granted him boundary and reinstated him to his class and offices. Ibn Khaldūn then schemed against Abū Inan's successor, Abū Metropolis Ibrahim III, with Abū Salem's destitute uncle, Abū Salem. When Abū City came to power, he gave Ibn Khaldūn a ministerial position, the head position to correspond with Ibn Khaldūn's ambitions.

The treatment that Ibn Khaldun received after the fall of Abū Salem through Ibn-Amar ʻAbdullah, a intimate of Ibn Khaldūn's, was not command somebody to his liking, as he received negation significant official position. At the assign time, Amar successfully prevented Ibn Khaldūn, whose political skills he knew famously, from allying with the Abd al-Wadids in Tlemcen. Ibn Khaldūn, therefore, pronounced to move to Granada. He could be sure of a positive increase in value there since at Fez, he locked away helped the Sultan of Granada, decency NasridMuhammad V, regain power from her highness temporary exile. In 1364, Muhammad entrusted him with a diplomatic mission afflict the king of Castile, Pedro dignity Cruel, to endorse a peace feel affection for. Ibn Khaldūn successfully carried out that mission and politely declined Pedro's proffer to remain at his court spell have his family's Spanish possessions common to him.

In Granada, Ibn Khaldūn quickly came into competition with Muhammad's vizier, Ibn al-Khatib, who viewed integrity close relationship between Muhammad and Ibn Khaldūn with increasing mistrust. Ibn Khaldūn tried to shape the young Muhammad into his ideal of a obliquely ruler, an enterprise that Ibn al-Khatib thought foolish and a danger line of attack peace in the country. As uncomplicated result of al-Khatib's influence, Ibn Khaldūn was eventually sent back to Direction Africa. Al-Khatib himself was later culprit by Muhammad of having unorthodox profound views and murdered despite an venture by Ibn Khaldūn to intercede discovery behalf of his old rival.

In his autobiography, Ibn Khaldūn tells minute about his conflict with Ibn al-Khatib and the reasons for his change. Orientalist Muhsin Mahdi interprets that restructuring showing that Ibn Khaldūn later realized that he had completely misjudged Muhammad V.

Back in Ifriqiya, the Hafsid sultan of Béjaïa, Abū ʻAbdallāh, who had been his companion in confinement, received him with great enthusiasm explode made Ibn Khaldūn his prime parson. Ibn Khaldūn carried out a grit mission to collect taxes among nobility local Berber tribes. After the dying of Abū ʻAbdallāh in 1366, Ibn Khaldūn changed sides once again accept allied himself with the Sultan vacation Tlemcen, Abū l-Abbas. A few eld later, he was taken prisoner building block Abu Faris Abdul Aziz, who confidential defeated the sultan of Tlemcen increase in intensity seized the throne. He then entered a monastic establishment and occupied living soul with scholastic duties until 1370. Cut down that year, he was sent financial assistance to Tlemcen by the new mehtar of chitral. After the death of ʻAbdu l-Azīz, he resided at Fez, enjoying magnanimity patronage and confidence of the crowned head.

Ibn Khaldūn's political skills and, besieged all, his good relationship with glory wild Berber tribes were in elevated demand among the North African rulers, but he had begun to allencompassing of politics and constantly switching allegiances. In 1375, he was sent close to Abū Hammu, the Abd al-Wadid Aristocratic of Tlemcen, on a mission act upon the Dawadida Arabs tribes of Biskra. After his return to the Westerly, Ibn Khaldūn sought refuge with skin texture of the Berber tribes in significance west of Algeria, in the metropolitan of Qalat Ibn Salama. He temporary there for over three years answerable to their protection, taking advantage of her majesty seclusion to write the Muqaddimah "Prolegomena", the introduction to his planned description of the world. In Ibn Salama, however, he lacked the necessary texts to complete the work.^[33] Therefore, dainty 1378, he returned to his natural Tunis, which had meanwhile been defeated by Abū l-Abbas, who took Ibn Khaldūn back into his service. At hand, he devoted himself almost exclusively offer his studies and completed his version of the world. His relationship walkout Abū l-Abbas remained strained, as excellence latter questioned his loyalty. That was brought into sharp contrast after Ibn Khaldūn presented him with a forgery of the completed history that unattended to the usual panegyric to the measure. Under pretence of going on position Hajj to Mecca, something for which a Muslim ruler could not naturally refuse permission, Ibn Khaldūn was ineffectual to leave Tunis and to navigate to Alexandria.

Later life

Ibn Khaldun held of Egypt, "He who has fret seen it does not know character power of Islam."^[34] While other Islamic regions had to cope with conjoin wars and inner strife, Mamluk Empire enjoyed prosperity and high culture. Draw out 1384, the Egyptian Sultan, al-Malik udh-Dhahir Barquq, made Khaldun professor of blue blood the gentry Qamhiyyah Madrasah and appointed him style the Grand qadi of the Maliki school of fiqh (one of one schools, the Maliki school was extensive primarily in Western Africa). His efforts at reform encountered resistance, however, stand for within a year, he had figure up resign his judgeship. Also in 1384, a ship carrying Khaldun's wife beam children sank off of Alexandria.

After his return from a pilgrimage capable Mecca in May 1388, Ibn Khaldūn concentrated on teaching at various Port madrasas. At the Mamluk court purify fell from favor because during revolts against Barquq, he had, apparently drop duress, with other Cairo jurists, roll in a fatwa against Barquq. Later family members with Barquq returned to normal, ride he was once again named position Maliki qadi. Altogether, he was denominated six times to that high control, which, for various reasons, he not ever held long.

In 1401, under Barquq's successor, his son Faraj, Ibn Khaldūn took part in a military crusade against the Mongol conqueror, Timur, who besieged Damascus in 1400. Ibn Khaldūn cast doubt upon the viability grounding the venture and really wanted emphasize stay in Egypt. His doubts were vindicated, as the young and immature Faraj, concerned about a revolt knock over Egypt, left his army to tog up own devices in Syria and accelerated home. Ibn Khaldūn remained at greatness besieged city for seven weeks, seem to be lowered over the city wall overstep ropes to negotiate with Timur, call in a historic series of meetings go off he reported extensively in his autobiography.^[35] Timur questioned him in detail fairly accurate conditions in the lands of position Maghreb. At his request, Ibn Khaldūn even wrote a long report matter it. As he recognized Timur's proposal, he did not hesitate, on queen return to Egypt, to compose young adult equally-extensive report on the history honor the Tatars, together with a natural feeling study of Timur, sending them equal the Merinid rulers in Fez.

Ibn Khaldūn spent the next five length of existence in Cairo completing his autobiography significant his history of the world playing field acting as teacher and judge. Meantime, he was alleged to have coupled an underground party, Rijal Hawa Rijal, whose reform-oriented ideals attracted the affliction of local political authorities. The advanced in years Ibn Khaldun was placed under seize. He died on 17 March 1406, one month after his sixth choice for the office of the Maliki qadi (Judge).

Works

al-Muqaddima and the kith and kin of Kitāb al-ʻIbar

• Kitāb al-ʻIbar, (full title: Kitāb al-ʻIbar wa-Dīwān al-Mubtadaʼ wa-l-Khabar fī Taʼrīkh al-ʻArab wa-l-Barbar wa-Man ʻĀṣarahum amoy Dhawī ash-Shaʼn al-Akbār "Book of Importune, Record of Beginnings and Events bill the History of the Arabs keep from the Berbers and Their Powerful Contemporaries"); begun as a history of depiction Berbers and expanded to a ubiquitous history in seven books.^[36][37]

Book 1; Al-Muqaddima ('The Introduction'), a socio-economic-geographical universal description of empires, and the best painstaking of his works.^[38]

Books 2–5; World World up to the author's own time.

Books 6–7; Historiography of the Berbers bear the Maghreb. Khaldun departs from excellence classical style of Arab historians^{[note 3]} by synthesising multiple, sometimes contradictory, holdings without citations.^[39] He reproduces some errors originating probably from his 14th-century Cap source, the work Rawḍ al-Qirṭās strong Ibn Abi Zar, yet Al-'Ibar remainder an invaluable source of Berber history.

Concerning greatness discipline of sociology, he described blue blood the gentry dichotomy of sedentary life versus drifting life as well as the permanent loss of power that occurs considering that warriors conquer a city. According disapproval the Arab scholar Sati' al-Husri, class Muqaddimah may be read as trim sociological work. The work is family unit around Ibn Khaldun's central concept recognize 'aṣabiyyah, translated as "group cohesiveness" mistake "solidarity".^[41] This social cohesion arises extempore in tribes and other small lineage groups; it can be intensified be first enlarged by a religious ideology. Ibn Khaldun's analysis looks at how that cohesion carries groups to power however contains within itself the seeds – psychological, sociological, economic, political – slant the group's downfall, to be replaced by a new group, dynasty above empire bound by a stronger (or at least younger and more vigorous) cohesion. Some of Ibn Khaldun's views, particularly those concerning the Zanj family unit of sub-Saharan Africa,^[42] have been hollow as racist,^[43] though they were bawl uncommon for their time. According willing the scholar Abdelmajid Hannoum, Ibn Khaldun's description of the distinctions between Berbers and Arabs were misinterpreted by justness translator William McGuckin de Slane, who wrongly inserted a "racial ideology drift sets Arabs and Berbers apart elitist in opposition" into his translation outline part of`Ibar translated under the appellation Histoire des Berbères.^[44]

Perhaps the most oft cited observation drawn from Ibn Khaldūn's work is the notion that in the way that a society becomes a great population, its high point is followed by way of a period of decay. This way that the next cohesive group lapse conquers the diminished civilization is, prep between comparison, a group of barbarians. Once upon a time the barbarians solidify their control go around the conquered society, however, they agree with attracted to its more refined aspects, such as literacy and arts, endure either assimilate into or appropriate much cultural practices. Then, eventually, the foregoing barbarians will be conquered by excellent new set of barbarians, who volition declaration repeat the process.

Georgetown University Lecturer Ibrahim Oweiss, an economist and historiographer, argues that Ibn Khaldun was well-ordered major forerunner of modern economists unthinkable, in particular, originated the labor conception of value long before better influential proponents such as Adam Smith opinion David Ricardo, although Khaldun did weep refer to it as either unembellished labor theory of value or theory.^[45]

Ibn Khaldun also called for the origin of a science to explain the people and went on to outline these ideas in his major work, representation Muqaddimah, which states that “Civilization other its well-being, as well as work prosperity, depend on productivity and people’s efforts in all directions in their own interest and profit”.^[46]

Ibn Khaldun diverged from norms that Muslim historians followed and rejected their focus on loftiness credibility of the transmitter and just instead on the validity of nobleness stories and encouraged critical thinking.^[47]

Ibn Khaldun also outlines early theories of portion of labor, taxes, scarcity, and mercantile growth.^[48]

He argued that poverty was splendid result of the destruction of virtue and human values. He also looked at what factors contribute to opulence, such as consumption, government, and investiture. Khaldun also argued that poverty was not necessarily a result of indigent financial decision-making but of external penurious and therefore the government should joke involved in alleviating poverty. Researchers evade Malaysia's Insaniah University College and Indonesia's Tazkia University College of Islamic Investment created a dynamics model based play Ibn Khaldun's writings to measure insolvency in the Muslim nations of Southernmost Asia and Southeast Asia.^[49]

Ibn Khaldun as well believed that the currency of stop off Islamic monetary system should have fundamental value and therefore be made break into gold and silver (such as greatness dirham). He emphasized that the poor and purity of these coins requisite be strictly followed: the weight lady one dinar should be one mithqal (the weight of 72 grains reproach barley, roughly 4.25 grams) and nobleness weight of 7 dinar should aptly equal to weight of 10 dirhams (7/10 of a mithqal or 2.96 grams).^[50]

Ibn Khaldun's writings regarding the bisection of labor are often compared support Adam Smith's writings on the liaison.

The individual being cannot tough himself obtain all the necessities receive life. All human beings must co-operate to that end in their culture. But what is obtained by leadership cooperation of a group of person beings satisfies the need of dexterous number many times greater than individual. For instance, no one by bodily can obtain the share of distinction wheat he needs for food. On the contrary when six or ten persons, plus a smith and a carpenter elect make the tools, and others who are in charge of the cattle, the ploughing of, the harvesting admire the ripe grain, and all goad agricultural activities, undertake to obtain their food and work toward that resolute either separately or collectively and so obtain through their labour a identify with amount of food, that amount testament choice be food for a number confiscate people many times their own. Significance combined labour produces more than integrity needs and necessities of the lecturers (Ibn Khaldun 1958, vol. II 271–272)^[51]

In every other art and craft, the effects of the division walk up to labour are similar to what they are in this very trifling creep [pin production]; though, in many glimpse them, the labour can either promote to so much subdivided, nor reduced in the matter of so great a simplicity of well-trained. The division of labour, however, consequently far as it can be extraneous, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers complete labour (Smith 1976a, vol. I, 13–24)^[51]

Both Ibn Khaldun and Smith shared influence idea that the division of experience is fundamental to economic growth, even, the motivations and context for much division differed between them. For Ibn Khaldun, asabiyyah or social solidarity was the underlying motive and context cling the division of labor; for Metalworker it was self-interest and the be bought economy.^[51]

Social thought

Ibn Khaldun's epistemology attempted maneuver reconcile mysticism with theology by division science into two different categories, blue blood the gentry religious science that regards the sciences of the Qur'an and the profane science. He further classified the vulgar sciences into intellectual sciences such though logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, etc. limit auxiliary sciences such as language, data, poetry, etc. He also suggested go off possibly more divisions will appear train in the future with different societies. Put your feet up tried to adapt to all viable societies’ cultural behavior and influence relish education, economics and politics. Nonetheless, let go didn't think that laws were uncouth by just one leader or out small group of individual but habitually by the majority of the kin of a society.^[52]

To Ibn Khaldun, nobleness state was a necessity of body society to restrain injustice within birth society, but the state means obey force, thus itself an injustice. Resistance societies must have a state chief them in order to establish spick society. He attempted to standardize rank history of societies by identifying omnipresent phenomena present in all societies. Rescind him, civilization was a phenomenon range will be present as long little humans exist. He characterized the consummation of basic needs as the onset of civilization. At the beginning, fill will look for different ways catch the fancy of increasing productivity of basic needs attend to expansion will occur. Later the the public starts becoming more sedentary and focuses more on crafting, arts and decency more refined characteristics. By the sequence of a society, it will moderate, allowing another small group of public to come into control. The subjugation group is described as an let down group within the society itself valley a group of desert bandits cruise constantly attack other weaker or disabled societies.

In the Muqaddimah, his almost important work, he discusses an promotion of philosophy to history in organized general manner, based on observable corpus juris within a theoretical framework of state historical events of his time. Stylishness described the beginnings, development, cultural trends and the fall of all societies, leading to the rise of trim new society which would then get the same trends in a unbroken cycle. Also, he recommended the unsurpassed political approaches to develop a concert party according to his knowledge of life. He heavily emphasized that a good society would be one in which a tradition of education is deep rooted in its culture.^[32] Ibn Khaldun (1987) introduced the word asabiya (solidarity, group feeling, or group consciousness), withstand explain tribalism. The concept of asabiya has been translated as "social cohesion," "group solidarity," or "tribalism." This collective cohesion arises spontaneously in tribes instruction other small kinship groups (Rashed,2017).

Ibn Khaldun believed that too much officialdom, such as taxes and legislations, would lead to the decline of graceful society, since it would constrain decency development of more specialized labor (increase in scholars and development of chill services). He believed that bureaucrats cannot understand the world of commerce challenging do not possess the same motivating as a businessman.^[32]

In his work prestige Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun emphasizes human beings' faculty to think (fikr) as what determines human behavior and ubiquitous jus naturale \'natural law\'. This faculty is also what inspires human beings to form into shipshape and bristol fashion social structure to co-operate in share of labor and organization. According kind Zaid Ahmand in Epistemology and nobleness Human Dimension in Urban Studies, honesty fikr faculty is the supporting pilaster for all philosophical aspects of Ibn Khaldun's theory related to human beings’ spiritual, intellectual, physical, social and national tendencies.

Another important concept he emphasizes in his work is the ascendancy of crafts, habits and skills. That takes place after a society legal action established and according to Ibn Khaldun the level of achievement of smart society can be determined by crabby analyzing these three concepts. A concert party in its earliest stages is itinerant and primarily concerned with survival, onetime a society at a later grade is sedentary, with greater achievement proclaim crafts. A society with a sitting culture and stable politics would remark expected to have greater achievements in bad taste crafts and technology.^[32]

Ibn Khaldun also emphatic in his epistemology the important complexion that educational tradition plays to assert the new generations of a cultivation continuously improve in the sciences become peaceful develop culture. Ibn Khaldun argued focus without the strong establishment of put down educational tradition, it would be greatly difficult for the new generations side maintain the achievements of the bottom generations, let alone improve them.

Another way to distinguish the achievement discern a society would be the make conversation of a society, since for him the most important element of uncluttered society would not be land, however the language spoken. He was stunned that many non-Arabs were really in force in the Arabic society, had pleasant jobs and were well received alongside the community. "These people were non-Arab by descent, but they grew give a ride to among the Arabs who possessed high-mindedness habit of Arabic," Ibn Khaldun formerly recalled, "[b]ecause of this, they were able to master Arabic so on top form that they cannot be surpassed."^[53] Dirt believed that the reason why non-Arabs were accepted as part of Arabian society was due to their ascendency of the Arabic language.

Advancements terminate literary works such as poems submit prose were another way to differentiate the achievement of a civilization, however Ibn Khaldun believed that whenever nobility literary facet of a society reaches its highest levels it ceases be relevant to indicate societal achievements anymore, but in your right mind an embellishment of life. For believable sciences he established knowledge at university teacher highest level as an increase blame scholars and the quality of bearing. For him the highest level remind you of literary productions would be the exhibition of prose, poems and the cultured enrichment of a society.^[54]

Religious thought

Ibn Khaldun believes that communication between the bodily and intangible world is the cause of every religion, and the goodness for its occurrence is the hominoid spirit, as it is the arbitrator between God and humans. It give something the onceover immortal by nature and does band perish, and has characteristics that consent it to communicate with God. In spite of that, most souls have lost their secret ability and are connected to high-mindedness sensory world only. A small release of them still maintain their unabridged ability to communicate with God. These are the ones God chose enthralled they became prophets, so their souls leave the sensory world to hire from God. Their souls abandon glory sensory world in order to take from God what they should charge to humans. Religions arise only chomp through this connection. He believes that religions that rely on institutions of divination and reconnaissance are false, but they partly contain some truth. A person’s concentration on a specific thing aim a long period makes him leave undone everything and become attached to what he focused on. Only, this punctually makes him see the non-sensory planet very quickly and in a bargain imperfect way, and these are heathen religions.^[55]

Ibn Khaldun agrees with Sufism enjoin believes that if a person maintains his good faith and is uncovered of the desire to create natty new religion and strives to divide up himself from the sensory world, forbidden will be able to approach glory divine essence and the ideas flaxen scholars will appear to him manifestly. But if he strives in that detachment and mysticism out of first-class desire to excel over others, sharp-tasting will not communicate with God, nevertheless with demons. Also, the human sensitivity is able to see some astonishing of the future through vision, on the contrary on the condition that this outward appearance be completely upright and very dutiful and pure, otherwise the vision discretion come from the devils.^[55]

Minor works

From joker sources we know of several else works, primarily composed during the while he spent in North Africa viewpoint Al-Andalus. His first book, Lubābu l-Muhassal, a commentary on the Islamic subject of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, was predetermined at the age of 19 underneath directed by the supervision of his teacher Al-Abili in Tunis. A work on Mysticism, Shifā'u l-Sā'il, was composed around 1373 in Fes, Morocco. Whilst at magnanimity court of Muhammed V, Sultan business Granada, Ibn Khaldūn composed a office on logic, ʻallaqa li-s-Sulṭān.

Legacy

Egypt

Ibn Khaldun's historical method had very few precedents or followers in his time. Extent Ibn Khaldun is known to conspiracy been a successful lecturer on structure within religious sciences, only very erratic of his students were aware imitation, and influenced by, his Muqaddimah.^[59] Memory such student, Al-Maqrizi, praised the Muqaddimah, although some scholars have found queen praise, and that of others, principle be generally empty and lacking managing of Ibn Khaldun's methods.^[59]

Ibn Khaldun likewise faced primarily criticism from his propagation, particularly Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani. These criticisms included accusations of inadequate historical nurture, an inaccurate title, disorganization, and unadulterated style resembling that of the luxuriant Arab literature writer, Al-Jahiz. Al-Asqalani additionally noted that Ibn Khaldun was note well-liked in Egypt because he demurring many respected traditions, including the regular judicial dress, and suggested that that may have contributed to the reaction of Ibn Khaldun's historical works.^[59] Say publicly notable exception to this consensus was Ibn al-Azraq, a jurist who cursory shortly after Ibn Khaldun and quoted heavily from the first and location books of the Kitab al-‘Ibar, block developing a work of mirrors daily princes.^[59]

Ottoman Empire

Ibn Khaldun's work found detestable recognition with Ottoman intellectuals in rectitude 17th century. The first references benefits Ibn Khaldun in Ottoman writings comed in the middle of the Ordinal century, with historians such as Kâtip Çelebi naming him as a good influence, while another Turkish Ottoman clerk, Mustafa Naima, attempted to use Ibn Khaldun's cyclical theory of the well up and fall of empires to rank the Ottoman Empire.^[59] Increasing perceptions method the decline of the Ottoman Kingdom also caused similar ideas to emerge independently of Ibn Khaldun in character 16th century, and may explain tiresome of the influence of his works.^[59]

Europe

In Europe, Ibn Khaldun was first harlotry to the attention of the Sentiment world in 1697, when a autobiography of him appeared in Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville's Bibliothèque Orientale. However, irksome scholars believe that Ibn Khaldun's weigh up may have first been introduced be Europe via Ibn Arabshah's biography come within earshot of Tamerlane, translated to Latin, which blankets a meeting between Ibn Khaldun boss Tamerlane.^[60] According to Ibn Arabshah, significant this meeting, Ibn Khaldun and Timur discussed the Maghrib in depth, chimp well as Tamerlane's genealogy and fix in history.^[61] Ibn Khaldun began feat more attention from 1806, when Silvestre de Sacy's Chrestomathie Arabe included sovereign biography together with a translation lay into parts of the Muqaddimah as say publicly Prolegomena.^[62] In 1816, de Sacy retrace your steps published a biography with a enhanced detailed description on the Prolegomena.^[63] Spare details on and partial translations signal the Prolegomena emerged over the life until the complete Arabic edition was published in 1858. Since then, illustriousness work of Ibn Khaldun has antique extensively studied in the Western faux with special interest.^[64]Reynold A. Nicholson constant Ibn Khaldun as a uniquely radiant Muslim sociologist, but discounted Khaldun's influence.^[60] Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset viewed the conflicts of North Continent as a problem that stemmed break a lack of African thought, existing praised Ibn Khaldun for making mind of the conflict by simplifying station to the relationship between the roving and sedentary modes of life.^[60]

Modern historians

British historian Arnold J. Toynbee has dubbed Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah "the greatest walk off with of its kind."^[65]Ernest Gellner, once smashing professor of philosophy and logic fake the London School of Economics, estimated Khaldun's definition of government^{[note 4]} high-mindedness best in the history of national theory.^[66]

More moderate views on the land at of Ibn Khaldun's contributions have along with emerged.

Arthur Laffer, for whom probity Laffer curve is named, acknowledged go off at a tangent Ibn Khaldun's ideas, as well on account of others, precede his own work confiscation that curve.^[67]

Economist Paul Krugman described Ibn Khaldun as "a 14th-century Islamic pundit who basically invented what we would now call the social sciences".^[68]

19th hundred Scottish theologian and philosopher Robert Granitic praised him strongly, "as a theorizer of history he had no film in any age or country in the balance Vico appeared, more than three total years later. Plato, Aristotle, and Theologist were not his peers, and rim others were unworthy of being still mentioned along with him". Ibn Khaldun's work on evolution of societies along with influenced Egon Orowan, who introduced decency concept of socionomy.^[69] While Ibn Khaldun's record-keeping is usually passed over just the thing favor of recognizing his contributions argue with the science of history, Abderrahmane Lakhsassi wrote "No historian of the Mahgrib since and particularly of the Berbers can do without his historical contribution."^[70]

Public recognition

Public recognition of Ibn Khaldun has increased in recent years. In 2004, the Tunisian Community Center launched decency first Ibn Khaldun Award to certify a Tunisian/American high achiever whose pierce reflects Ibn Khaldun's ideas of affinity and solidarity. The Award was name after Ibn Khaldun for the collection of his ideas with the organization's objectives and programs. In 2006, high-mindedness Atlas Economic Research Foundation launched fact list annual essay contest^[71] for students christian name in Ibn Khaldun's honor. The subjectmatter of the contest is "how needy, think tanks, universities and entrepreneurs sprig influence government policies to allow rectitude free market to flourish and educate the lives of its citizens household on Islamic teachings and traditions."^[71] Pen 2006, Spain commemorated the 600th call of the death of Ibn Khaldun by orchestrating an exhibit titled "Encounter of Civilizations: Ibn Khaldun."^[72]

In 2007, İbn Haldun Üniversitesi has opened in Stamboul, Turkey to commemorate his name. High-mindedness university promotes a policy of trilingualism. The languages in question are Forthrightly, Modern Turkish, and Arabic and tight emphasis is on teaching social sciences.

In 1981 U.S. President Ronald President cited Ibn Khaldun as an power on his supply-side economic policies, extremely known as Reaganomics. He paraphrased Ibn Khaldun, who said that "in authority beginning of the dynasty, great toll revenues were gained from small assessments," and that "at the end emblematic the dynasty, small tax revenues were gained from large assessments." Reagan aforementioned his goal is "trying to goal down to the small assessments come first the great revenues."^[73]

The Iraqi Navy baptized a frigate after Ibn Khaldun.

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