An Islamic Approach to Studying History: Reflections on Ibn Khaldūn’s Deterministic Historical Approach
This paper argues that patterns exist in history, and that these can —and should — be discerned. By doing this, Muslim intellectuals will only be resuming an intellectual and spiritual journey begun over 600 years ago, by Ibn Khaldūn, who invented sociology and the scientific study of history, basin...
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2009
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Intellectual discourse
Year: 2009, Volume: 17, Issue: 2 |
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