Ibn Khaldun · Civilisations
How Ibn Khaldun, in fourteenth-century North Africa, founded an entirely new science - the study of human society and civilisation itself - four centuries before sociology had a name.
You learned that Ibn Khaldun founded a new science of human society and civilisation. Explain what was new about it, and how it differed from ordinary history, in your own words.
Leads to Auguste Comte.
Begin this lesson →epoché — a humanities education that remembers you.