Open AccessApplying Ibn Khaldūn: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology (by Syed Farid Alatas)
Author(s) -
Yasien Mohamed
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the american journal of islamic social sciences/american journal of islamic social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2642-701X
pISSN - 0887-7653
DOI - 10.35632/ajiss.v36i2.581
Subject(s) - islam , muslim world , islamic philosophy , sociology , religious studies , ancient history , social science , philosophy , history , theology
The intellectual legacy of Ibn Khaldūn is unique among Muslim historians, and yet he is not fully appreciated in the East. Many Muslim scholars—including Muhammad Abdullah Enan, Muhsin Mahdi, and Mahmoud Dhaoudi—have written about Ibn Khaldūn in English. Their treatment of him was either comparative or historical, but none presented his theory as a valid framework for sociological analysis today as Syed Farid Alatas does in his Applying Ibn Khaldūn.