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- Title
Ibn Khaldūn's Method of History and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy.
- Authors
Adamson, Peter
- Abstract
The historian Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406) is most often treated by historians of philosophy as part of the story of political philosophy in the Islamic world. While this is perfectly legitimate, it may be misleading when it comes to the question of the method he proposes for the historian. This paper argues that that method is in fact based on a different branch of (Aristotelian) science: natural philosophy. After rendering this proposition initially plausible by noting frequent references to "nature" in the Muqaddima , the paper discusses a number of parallels between natural philosophy and history as Ibn Khaldūn conceives it. Ultimately it is suggested that this method is legitimated insofar as history is for Ibn Khaldūn a study of human nature.
- Subjects
IBN Khaldun, 1332-1406; ARISTOTELIANISM (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of science; PHILOSOPHY of nature; ISLAMIC philosophy; POLITICAL philosophy; HUMAN behavior
- Publication
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2024, Vol 62, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
0022-5053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hph.2024.a925517