HISTORY, TIME AND CIRCULARITY ON IBN KHALDUN’S THOUGHT Cover Image

İBN HALDUN DÜŞÜNCESİNDE TARİH, ZAMAN VE DÖNGÜSELLİK
HISTORY, TIME AND CIRCULARITY ON IBN KHALDUN’S THOUGHT

Author(s): Nureddin NEBATİ
Subject(s): Islam studies, Comparative Studies of Religion, Philosophy of History
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Ibn Khaldun; History; Asabiyyah; Islam; Christianity; Judaism;

Summary/Abstract: The progressive line of linear history brought about by the culture of Judaism and Christianity imposes a final purpose in history by separating the past, future and present precisely. Thus, in the Middle Ages, the time was freed from the sanctity, and the human was deified. A linear history approach from the cyclical history, which is conceived as a pattern that repeats with a similar cycle as the historical cosmos, has been adopted and all the history of Western thought has adopted this legacy. Islam's historical approach contains a different structure that goes beyond categorical disagreements. Islamic historian Ibn Khaldun, by analyzing the relativity of historical divine law and the faulty aspects of the diversity of societies, established the first history methodology and scientificized the history. He envisioned historic being in a cyclical process inherent in existence, states, societies, has established a correlation between the asabiyyah bonds and the human organism.

  • Issue Year: 12/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 141-158
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish