Quotes About Ibn Khaldun

it seems clear that Ibn Khaldun preferred al-Ghazali to Averroes. "He who wants to arm himself against the philosophers in the field of dogmatic beliefs should turn to the works of al-Ghazali.

Ibn Khaldun discussed the calculations of the ninth-century astrologer and polymath al-Kindi regarding the predestined end of the 'Abbasid dynasty.

It was a great sage of Islam, ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), who saw that as a society becomes affluent it becomes more individualistic. It loses what he called its asabiyah, its social cohesion. It then becomes prey to the 'desert dwellers', those who shun the luxuries of the city and are prepared for self-sacrifice in war.

The opinion that the survival of Islam itself depended on the use of military slavery was shared by the great Arab historian and philosopher Ibn Khaldun, who lived in North Africa in the fourteenth century, contemporaneously with the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt.