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	IBN KHALDUN (1332-1406) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thus to Ibn Khaldun, the rise, progress followed by decline of nations is due to the enervation of the human spirit to cohesion and goodness of values with the progress from the rudimentary form of life to the complexities of umran.
		Ibn Khaldun's concepts of population dynamics, human resource development, skill diversification and societal transformation together with the importance of governance, are the combination of statecraft with the economic order, which comprises well an empirical though not a conceptual approach to the study of political economy.
		Ibn Khaldun had equally failed to present a Qur'anic philosophy of history to show the rise and decline of civilizations owes to the primal condition of the believers' commitment or otherwise to the observance of Shari'ah and Sunnat Allah in the midst of society and self.
	islamic-finance.net /islamic-economy/chap14/chap14-6.html (1365 words)

	IBN KHALDUN
		Ibn Khaldun was an ambitious young man and at this point of his life he began to engage in court politics.
		Ibn Khaldun's view on philosophy is similar to that of al-Ghazali, in the sense that he attempted to reconcile mysticism and theology.
		Ibn Muflih was a Hanbali Qadi of Damascus.
	www.cis-ca.org /voices/k/khaldun_mn.htm (5447 words)

	Ibn Khaldun - LoveToKnow 1911
		IBN KHALDUN [Abu Zaid ibn Mahommed ibn Mahommed ibn Khaldun] (1332-1406), Arabic historian, was born at Tunis.
		When Timur had become master of the situation, Ibn Khaldun let himself down from the walls of the city by a rope, and presented himself before the conqueror, who permitted him to return to Egypt.
		Ibn Khaldun died on the 16th of March 1406, at the age of sixty-four.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ibn_Khaldun (863 words)

	Ibn Khaldun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ibn Khaldun was not a 'philosopher' (in the sense of an avowed follower of the Greek philosophers), but his thinking is much influenced by Aristotelian ideas, in particular the idea of nature as a source of development toward a goal.
		Ibn Khaldun thinks that no individual dynasty or society can permanently remain at a high level of development; soon after maturity is attained decay sets in (just as individual plants and animals achieve the maturity natural to their species and then decay).
		Ibn Khaldun's theory also extends to the rise and decay of cities and development and decay in economic life and in the sciences, showing the connection between the changes in these various aspects of culture or civilisation.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/y67s17.html (554 words)

	Ibn Khaldun (InterIslamicNet)
		Ibn Khaldun is universally recognized as the founder and father of Sociology and Sciences of History.
		Ibn Khaldun was educated at Tunis and Fez, and studied the Qur'an, Prophet Muhammad's Traditions and other branches of Islamic studies such as Dialectical theology, shari'a (Islamic Law of Jurisprudence, according to the Maliki School).
		Ibn Khaldun remarked that the role of religion is in unifying the Arabs and bringing progress and development to their society.
	members.tripod.com /bimcrot/alkisah/khaldun.html (1418 words)

	IBN KHALDUN
		Ibn Khaldun was in the era when the Western world was experiencing the renaissance.
		Ibn Khaldun also said that there is natural inheritence in the case of skill.
		Ibn Khaldun was realistic and said that it is not possible to tackle the rich rulers until all people rise.
	www.geocities.com /ecovistainternational/articles2001/ibn_khaldun.htm (1975 words)

	IBN KHALDUN (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ibn Khaldun's chief contribution lies in philosophy of history and sociology.
		This volume, commonly known as Muqaddimah or 'Prolegomena', was based on Ibn Khaldun's unique approach and original contribution and became a masterpiece in literature on philosophy of history and sociology.
		Ibn Khaldun's influence on the subject of history, philosophy of history, sociology, political science and education has remained paramount ever since his life.
	www.ummah.net.cob-web.org:8888 /history/scholars/KHALDUN.html (534 words)

	Ibn Khaldun and Our Age \| Turnabout
		Ibn Khaldun,[1] born 1332 in Tunis and died 1406 in Cairo, was a thinker who grappled with circumstances similar in important ways to the social and political situation now evolving in the West.
		Ibn Khaldun has been called the father of modern social science, although his work was soon largely forgotten and was rediscovered and made known in the West too late for it to play a formative influence.
		Ibn Khaldun did not need to discuss them because for him they did not and could not exist, and in a world that is increasingly like his it will be hard for them to retain their importance.[11]
	turnabout.ath.cx:8000 /node/23 (4761 words)

	IBN KHALDUN - His Life and Work
		Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis on Ramadan 1, 732 (May 27, 1332)[2].
		Ibn Tafrakin, the ruler of Tunis, called Ibn Khaldun to be the seal bearer of his captive Sultan Abu lshaq.
		Ibn Khaldun was an ambitious young man and at this point of his life, he would begin to engage in court politics.
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ik/klf.htm (3081 words)

	Ibn Khaldun
		Ibn Khaldun anticipates many of the elements of the political theory of Thomas Hobbes.
		Ibn Khaldun introduced an archaic labor theory of value, believing labor to be a necessary and sufficient condition for value -- "gains and profits, in their entirety or for the most part, are value realized from human labour" (Khaldun, 1377: p.298).
		In a famous passage employing the logic of "supply-side" economics, Ibn Khaldun warned rulers not to hamper or engage in commerce themselves as, by twisting the incentives of private enterprise, it is "harmful to his subjects and ruinous to the tax revenue" (1377: p.232).
	cepa.newschool.edu /~het/profiles/khaldun.htm (1098 words)

	Ibn Khaldun
		The purpose of this wep-page is to assess the contribution of Ibn Khaldun to one of the social science disciplines, i.e., sociology.
		In fact, Ibn Khaldun has been called by some the "father of sociology", "the founder of sociology", and a "sociologist." These characterizations of Ibn Khaldun and his work were most the time without tangible efforts to examine in detail his original writings, hence the goal of this paper is to provide such supportive evidence.
		Many ideas, discussed in the European West long after Ibn Khaldun's time, were found, amazingly enough, not to be as new as had been thought, but to have been known, in their rudiments at least, to the northwest African of the fourteenth century who founded a ‘new science' in his Muqaddimah (p.1xvii).
	www.build-a-webpage.com /society/aziz6 (955 words)

	Ibn Khaldun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ibn Khaldūn (May 27, 1332/732AH to March 19, 1406/808AH) was a famous historiographer and historian born in present-day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics.
		In 1375, sent by Abū Hammu, the ʕAbdu l Wadid Sultan of Tlemcen, on a mission to the Dawadida tribes, Ibn Khaldūn sought refuge with one of the Berber tribes, the Awlad Arif of central Algeria, in the town of Qalat Ibn Salama.
		Ibn Khaldun has said of Egypt "He who has not seen it does not know the power of Islam." While all other Islamic regions had to cope with border wars and inner strife, Egypt under the Mamluks was experiencing a period of economic prosperity and high culture.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ibn_Khaldun (2768 words)

	Ibn Khaldun; a 14th Century Arab Libertarian : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During his lifetime Ibn Khaldun is seeing the development of the earliest forms of capitalist primitive accumulation during the period of the last crusade the centralization of Arab control over the Middle East and the decline of European Fuedalism.
		Ibn Khaldun says that these are persons who live in great luxury and are accustomed to it.
		Ibn Khaldun's analysis looks at how this cohesion carries groups to power but contains within itself the seeds - psychological, sociological, economic, political - of the group's downfall, to be replaced by a new group, dynasty or empire bound by a stronger (or at least younger and more vigorous) cohesion.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1724488 (1800 words)

	Ibn Khaldun and Comte: Discontinuity or Progress
		In this text he develops a theory of what he calls 'ilm al-umran', which could be translated as the study of social organization or civilization[1] or as the science of human association/the science of culture[2].
		Ibn Khaldun is an excellent example for this embeddedness as he embarks on the analysis of medieval North Africa.
		In comparison to the historical approach of Ibn Khaldun, who focuses on social processes determining the rise and fall of dynasties in the Arabian World, he follows a naturalistic and inductive mode of argumentation.
	userpage.fu-berlin.de /~frers/ibn_khaldun.html (1861 words)

	LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Ibn Khaldun 14th Century Arab Libertarian
		Ibn Khaldun, a Sufi who died in 1406 AD, was a renaissance man, the real father of sociology.
		Ibn Khaldun means that when we buy an article, we do not buy only something concrete (the thing in itself), but we buy in fact the amount of labour which is spent to create that article.
		Ibn Khaldun expresses this qualitative distinction by the linguistically related term al-qinyah.
	plawiuk.blogspot.com /2006/02/ibn-khaldun-14th-century-arab.html (1925 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Chronicles \| Commemorating Ibn Khaldun
		Ibn Khaldun, he writes, "was born in Tunisia at the beginning of Ramadan in 732 AH (1332 AD).
		Adding to the likelihood that Ibn Khaldun was buried in that plot was the fact that it contained the grave of the philologist Ibn Hisham Al-Ansari, a contemporary of Ibn Khaldun who had died shortly before the great historian.
		Thirdly, the minister of education should be encouraged to include the study of Ibn Khaldun in the history of literature curriculum of secondary schools and to offer a specialisation in Ibn Khaldun to students of Al-Azhar and the Egyptian University.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/653/chrncls.htm (2709 words)

	Ibn Khaldun page
		His explanation of the rise and fall of states was that there was a constant renewal or replacement of the ruling group by nomads conquering the towns and settled lands.
		In Ibn Khaldun's own world of the Maghrib - he was born in Tunis of Hadhramauti ancestors - the pattern is plain as a succession of armies led by preachers came out of the Mauretanian desert to conquer the Muslims of the Maghrib and Spain.
		In the business world company structures which allow "take-overs" may similarly have the effect of allowing the business to be renewed by new blood, the equivalent of the new tribe from the desert (though in Germany and Japan, two of the world's most successful economies, takeovers are difficult).
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/glossary/ibn.html (1596 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Ibn Khaldun, considered the greatest Arab historian, is also known as the father of modern social science and cultural history.
		At the age of 17, Ibn Khaldun lost both his parents to an epidemic of the plague which hit Tunis.
		Ibn Khaldun's autobiography, in which he spends time in prison, gains the highest offices and enters exile, at times reads like an adventure story.
	www.masnet.org /prof_personality.asp?id=2767 (1102 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Ibn Khaldun was born in the early 14th century CE.
		He had founded the independent think tank, the Ibn Khaldun Center, and proved to be too independent for the Egyptian government's wishes.(1) Ibn Khaldun had spent much of his later life in Cairo.
		Ibn Khaldun would have well understood the rebirth of Israel and the 'asabiyah -- group consciousness (emphasized throughout his writings) -- which made it possible, even if it was a consciousness born not only out of a "noble house", but also from the desperation of the Jews' perpetual victim, scapegoat and whipping-post status.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=4024 (1950 words)

	Ibn Khaldun (1332 - 1406, A.D.)
		orn in Tunis to a wealthy family that provided superior education, Ibn Khaldun is generally considered to be the greatest Arab historian and is known as the father of modern social science and cultural history.
		Ibn Khaldun became Maliki Judge through appointment from the Sultan Abul Abbas of Cairo and made the Hajj to Mecca in 1387 after receiving permission.
		Moreover, Ibn Khaldun is widely recognized for his work in sociology, astronomy, numerology, chemistry, and history.
	unix.dfn.org /printer_af_IbnKhaldun.shtml (296 words)

	IBN KHALDUN
		Thus Ibn khaldun's thought is often interpreted, particularly in recent years, in the spirit of dialectical materialism.
		But, in spite of the undoubted similarities, it would be difficult to regard Ibn khaldun as a forerunner of materialism.
		In this context Yemenite historian and sociologist, Ibn Khaldun analyzed the dynamics of group relationships and showed how group-feelings, al-'Asabiyya, give rise to the ascent of a new civilization and political power and how, later on, its diffusion into a more general civilization invites the advent of a still new 'Asabiyya in its pristine form.
	virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us /smithaj/ibn_khaldun.htm (1008 words)

	Ibn Khaldun (www.islaam.org.uk)
		But Ibn Khaldun had a restless spirit, and spent much time traveling from city to city and from political post to political post in the Muslim world.
		In 1375, craving solitude and exhausted by the business of politics, Ibn Khaldun settled down with his family near what is now the town of Frenda in Algeria and there wrote his masterpiece, the Muqaddimah.
		Ibn Khaldun was educated at Tunis and Fez, and studied the Qur'ân, Prophet Muhammad's Traditions and other branches of Islamic studies such as Dialectical theology, shari'a (Islamic Law of Jurisprudence, according to the Maliki School).
	www.sunnahonline.com /ilm/seerah/0033.htm (2356 words)

	The Islamic World to 1600: The Arts, Learning, and Knowledge (Ibn Khaldun) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad, known as Ibn Khaldun after an ancestor, is considered to be the founder of modern sociology and philosophy of history.
		Ibn Khaldun's most famous book is the Muqaddimah ("Introduction"), which he wrote as the first volume of an intended multi-volume world history.
		In the Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun set out his philosophy of history, and his views on how historical material should be analysed and presented.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/islam/learning/khaldun.html (364 words)

	Spring Semester: SSU Lesson #9: Ibn Khaldun on the Origins of Society; 03-23-01
		I'd first heard of Ibn Khaldun, a 14th century philosopher, from Ronald Reagan, who loved to quote Khaldun's observation that at the beginning of great empires tax rates were low, and at the end they were high.
		Ibn Khaldun is not an Arab neo-platonist, as his world view subsumes theirs and is an original one not previously expressed in the world.
		An Arab Philosophy of History: Selections from the Prolegomena (Muqadimmah) of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (1332-1406), edited by Charles Issawi.
	www.polyconomics.com /searchbase/03-23-01.html (3627 words)

	Ibn Khaldun. The Mediterranean in the 14th century: Rise and fall of Empires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The figure of Ibn Jaldún serves as a pretext for a broad examination of his time, the 14th century.
		The José Manuel Lara Foundation extends its commemorative editorial catalogue for the 6th centenary of the death of Ibn Khaldun.
		An international encounter that aims to analyse the 14th century and to present the work of Ibn Khaldun and his contributions to world knowledge, especially regarding the Mediterranean region in the 14th century.
	www.ibnkhaldun.es (331 words)

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