History of Ibn Khaldun

We do not know of any scientist or philosopher before Ibn Khaldun who singled out the science of the nature of urbanization and what is called today sociology, even though this science was not one of the hidden secrets nor one of the investigations in which the thoughts of the wise did not wander. It has been proven that the philosophers before Ibn Khaldun noticed this knowledge and referred to it in the multiplication of their discussions, but they did not achieve in it anything of the und...