His original intention, which he subsequently achieved, was to write a universal history of the Arabs and Berbers, but before doing so he judged it necessary to discuss historical method, with the aim of providing the criteria necessary for distinguishing historical truth from error. This led ...
Ibn khaldun was born in Tunis, on 1 Ramadan 732/27 May 1332, in an Arab family which came originally from the Hadramawt and had been settled at Seville since the beginning of the Muslim conquest (Ibn Hazm, Dhamhara, ed. Levi-Provencal, 430), playing there an important political role....
Twitter Google Share on Facebook The following article is fromThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia(1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. Ibn Fadlan, Ahmad Ibn Abbas Arab traveler and au-thor in the first half of the tenth century. ...
Ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies Ibn Khaldun, Abd Al-Rahman Abu Zayd Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khuldoon National School Ibn Khurdadhbih, Abu Al-Kasim Ubaydallah Ibn Abdallah Ibn Kuzman Ibn Majid, Ahmad Ibn Maymoun Ibn Maymoun Ibn Miskawayh, Abu Ali Ahmad Ibn Muhamm...
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), in his well-known Muqaddima states in a categorical manner that in the fields of science and learning (intellectual endeavours) the part played by the Arabs was a very minor one, while that of the non-Arabs, i.e., ajams was very substantial and outstanding.127...
Though few of them talked about teaching Arabic as a foreign or a second language to non-Arabs, their contributions have been acknowledged by many successor scholars (Günther, 2006). Ibn Sahnun, the Abdulrahman Ibn Khaldun The scholar we investigate here, however, is quite different from those...
What Ibn Khaldun did not say was that his pupil and equally brilliant poet Ibn Zamrak was the source of his friend’s eventual undoing. Spanish Arabist Emilio García Gomez called him the last great man of letters in Al-Andalus because “after having thrown away the key, he turned o...