IBN KHALDUN THOUGHT: A review of al-Muqaddimah Book
Abstract: Nowadays Muslim and
non-Muslim scholar have no paid exhaustion attention yet onal-Muqaddimah book
of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406). Al-Muqaddimah Book is still being studied and
debated critically. Actually, this work is still “dazzling” social scientists, anthropologists,
theologians, philosophers, historians, and economists even compared with the
other great works produced by other classical Muslim scholars. Search for the book
of al-Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun intends to seek and drank authenticity thoughts.
It becomes important in the center of issue. We should be wise to this Muslim
leader, because it has a big hand in an attempt to find the “authenticity” of
Muslim thought. By using the method of historical research, it is obtained:
first,for Ibn Khaldun, history is one of the disciplines studied extensively by
the nations and generations. Second, the legal history is applicable
universally so the truth can be revealed. Third, a historian should study the
areas of human life (sociology, anthropology, theology, philosophy, history,
and economics) to determine differences between main and general characteristics.
Fourth, related to the modern social sciences, undoubtedly Ibn Khaldun is first
beginning of sciences. He was a golden bridge for the development of science and
the history of modern sociology.
Author: Wawan Hernawan
Journal Code: jpperadabanislamgg150011
