TY - BOOK AU - Alatas, Farid. AU - Farid Alatas TI - Applying Ibn Khaldun: : the recovery of a lost tradition in sociology. SN - 9781138125964 U1 - 297.27 ALA PY - 2014/// CY - , London PB - : Routledge KW - History KW - Arab countries KW - Social sciences Philosophy KW - Sociology N1 - Introduction The errors of history and the new science: Introduction to the Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun's theory of state formation Ibn Khaldun and modern sociology: an aborted tradition Pre-modern readings and applications of Ibn Khaldun A Khaldunian theory of Muslim reform Ibn Khaldun and the Ottoman modes of production The rise and fall of the Safavid state in a Khaldunian framework A Khaldunian perspective on modern Arab states: Saudi Arabia and Syria Towards a Khaldunian sociology of the state Bibliographic remarks and further reading N2 - The writings of Ibn Khaldun, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldun has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition, however, few works went beyond proclaiming him as a founder or precursor to the systematic application of his theoretical perspective to specific historical and contemporary aspects of Muslim societies in North Africa and the Middle East. The continuing presence of Eurocentrism in the social sciences has not helped in this regard: it often stands in the way of the consideration of non-Western sources of theories and concepts ER -