28/05/2022
Ibn Khaldoun
Some view that- the Italian philosopher Vico (1668-1744) as the founder of historical philosophy and others praised the French philosopher Montesquieu (1689-1755).
Indeed the Arab philosopher and historian ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) was the first pioneer to discover that history, like any other science, requires research. "It is a science of events and events and its causes are profound, so it is an ancient part of wisdom and deserves to be one of its sciences."
Ibn Khaldun was an Arab social scientist, philosopher, and historian who founded the modern studies of historiography, sociology, economics, and democracy. Niccolò Machiavelli of the Renaissance and 19th-century European scholars widely accepted the value of his works and considered Ibn Khaldun to be one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages.
His most famous book, Muqaddimah or Prolegomena, which he wrote in six months as he wrote in his autobiography, influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians such as Kâtip Çelebi, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, and Mustafa Naima, who used their ideas to analyze the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire. Ibn Khaldun also interacted with Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Kingdom.
