The Life of Ibn Khaldun | Why Do States Rise and Fall? | Animated Documentary
🧭 Today on Fikir Rotası, we journey into the life and world of ideas of Ibn Khaldun, one of the great thinkers who changed the course of history.
Is history only the story of wars, rulers, and conquests? Or are there invisible laws that govern the rise and decline of societies?
Living in the turbulent world of the 14th century, Ibn Khaldun was an extraordinary thinker who searched for answers to these questions. His youth shaped by the shadow of plague, the political struggles in the courts of North Africa, his years of retreat in the Fortress of Ibn Salama, and his historic meeting with Emir Timur all played an important role in the formation of the ideas that carried him far beyond his time.
In this animated documentary, we explore the life story of Ibn Khaldun, who is regarded as one of the pioneers of sociology, history, and economics, along with the unique legacy he left to human thought.
We will also take a close look at the emergence of his immortal work, Muqaddimah, in which he explains that states and societies, like living organisms, are born, grow, become stronger, and eventually begin to decline.
Let us step together into the world of Ibn Khaldun, whose ideas are still being discussed centuries later.
📚 Source Work:
Ibn Khaldun – Muqaddimah
(Ensar Neşriyat, trans. by Av. Halil Kendir)
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