Posts
Ufuk Necat Taşçı, Current Affairs Producer at TRT World / PhD (C) inform, Science historians argue that the traces of Khaldun's theories were found in the works of world-famous intellectuals like Karl Marx, Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
Photo: TRT World
Ibn Khaldun was born May 27 1332 in Tunis, the capital city of present-day Tunisia. Raised and educated in a family of scholars and politicians, Khaldun came across as a gifted thinker right from his young age.
Although his first job as a calligrapher in Tunis was uninspiring, he evolved into a major intellectual giant. He was introduced to mathematics by his master Al Abili of Tlemcen, a city in Algeria. While studying with the fine and brightest minds of North Africa, Khaldun slowly gained expertise in the fields of philosophy, economics and social sciences.
At the age of 45, he wrote his groundbreaking book called “The Muqaddimah” in 1377. The book focussed on universal history. Several modern thinkers consider The Muqaddimah as the first academic work which deals with social sciences, demography and cultural history...
A strong philosopher who theorizes the inner face of historical events, Altas said he was also a good sociologist who described the social sphere.
“In his book Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun considers the field of historical social existence as an independent field of study. This is the first time in the history of science and philosophy. Secondly, he considers the historical social space not normative, that is, not around the question of what should be, but around the question of what is happening,” Altas told TRT World.
Additional resources
The Muqaddimah:
An Introduction to History
Source: TRT World
