TY  - SER
AU  - El-Rayes,Waseem
TI  - An ambiguous beginning: al-zahir wa al-batin in Ibn Khaldun's preface to the Muqaddima 
U1  - 189.61 23A
KW  - Ibn Khaldoun, Abderrahmane ibn Muhammad
KW  - ابن خلدون، عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن محمد
KW  - FALSAFA
KW  - HISTORIOGRAPHIE
KW  - THEORIE SOCIOLOGIQUE
KW  - MOYEN AGE
KW  - TUNISIE
N2  - Ever since the rediscovery of Ibn Khaldūn's Muqaddima in modern times, debates have been ongoing regarding his identity as a scholar: was he a revolutionary thinker in the modern sense of the word, breaking away from classical and medieval modes of thinking, or was he in fact a conservative Muslim scholar who did not venture far from his traditional Muslim horizons? Through a careful examination of the preface to the Muqaddima, this article shows what he thought about the nature of his project and why he thought it necessary. Accordingly, it builds the case that Ibn Khaldūn is indeed a revolutionary - but not in the modern sense of the word - who did not shy away from challenging tradition in order to reform society's moral and political horizons. An examination of the preface alone will not provide a definitive answer to the question of Ibn Khaldūn's radical vs. conservative thought, but it does put his conservatism (apparent and real) in context
UR  - http://www.fondation.org.ma/dsp/index/a588118-23
ER  -