TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: ibn Khaldūn and the Introduction to History
Monday 27 May 2024 is the 692nd anniversary of the birth of Abū Zayd 'Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī, better known to posterity as Ibn Khaldūn (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406), who was born in Tunis, under the Hafsid Sultanate, on this date in 1332 AD. His dates in the Islamic lunar calendar are 732 to 808 of the Hejira Era.
The Maqqadimmah by ibn Khaldūn, written as the introduction to a history proper, is a unique book that touches on many aspects of human life, such as one would need to know to understand history. In it, ibn Khaldūn depicts for us a world that is both strange and strangely familiar. Should we strip away this strange world to get at the perennial truths beneath it, or admire it intact, as an artifact and a monument to distant milieu?
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