Gulf countries have prospered in large part thanks to their cooperation. Rivalry can jeopardize further progress.

Ibn Khaldun was not a philosopher. He sought to transform the historical discipline into a “philosophical science,” a science like mathematics. In Eric Ormsby’s review of Robert Irwin’s new book “Ibn ...

An avid reader, great traveller, experienced politician and extraordinary historian, Ibn Khaldun was one of the greatest and most influential men in the medieval Arab World “He who has not seen Cairo ...

Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, a 14th-century Muslim philosopher, is not only a pioneer in social sciences, but also an alternative, according to Recep Senturk, the president of the Ibn Haldun University ...

Mr. Irwin, a novelist as well as a scholar of medieval Islam, traces the vicissitudes of Ibn Khaldun’s tumultuous career in a vivid narrative. Ibn Khaldun was both a thinker and a man of action who ...

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) are separated by five centuries of history and two civilisations and yet they exhibit some very important similarities. I discovered this when I was ...

Ronald Reagan once cited him. Mark Zuckerberg picked his great work as one of his book club choices. And the British historian Arnold Toynbee described it “as undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind ...

According to Esref Altas, an associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Khaldun was a good observer who saw the outer face of historical social events. Science historians argue that the ...