The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translatio…
This is an analytical examination of Ibn Khaldun's epistemology, centred on Chapter Six of the Muqaddima. In this chapter, entitled The Book of Knowledge (Kitab al'Ilm), Ibn Khaldun sketched his general ideas about knowledge and science and its relationship with human social organisation and the establishment of a civilisation.
Buku Rihlah Ibnu Khaldun menghadirkan perjalanan hidup sekaligus pemikiran seorang tokoh besar dunia Islam yang dikenal sebagai bapak sosiologi dan filsafat sejarah. Melalui narasi biografis, buku ini merekam perjalanan intelektual dan sosial Ibnu Khaldun pada abad ke-9 H, dari pengembaraannya, pengalaman politik, hingga karya monumentalnya al-Muqaddimah. Dalam karyanya itu, Ibnu Khaldun merumu…