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  title info:
    title: Ibn Khaldun's theory of knowledge and its educational implications
  name:
    name part: Halabi, Khaled M. A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Institute of Education
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur
    publisher: Institute of Education, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2013
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xii, 237 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: Many researchers studied Ibn Khaldun's thought in different scientific fields; few of them, however, shed the light comprehensively on his theory of knowledge and epistemological background which supported him writing his great works. In this study, the researcher brings up Ibn Khaldun's theory of knowledge and highlights some of its main issues such as the nature of knowledge and source of knowledge: their fields and characteristics. In addition, the researcher explores how Ibn Khaldun's theory of knowledge affects his method of analysis in the Muqaddimah and suggests many educational implications. A brief historical analysis is used in this study to highlight the stages of Ibn Khaldun's life that shaped his thought and theory of knowledge. The descriptive and analytic methods provide the researcher a lens that leads him deeply to arrive to the following results: Ibn Khaldun's theory of knowledge is based on Islam and it is closely related to his view of the worlds of existence and human nature. Knowledge has a nature covers both seen and unseen worlds. It is all acquired and evidenced based. Knowledge is obtained mainly from senses, intellect, revelation and inspiration. The seen world is the field of senses and intellect while the details and secrets of unseen world are made known only by revelation. Ibn Khaldun rejects doubt and skepticism and makes certainty his criterion of knowledge. Ibn Khaldun's theory of knowledge plays a direct role in delineating his new conception of history; direct observation and rational analysis are his main tools in proving and arriving at new concepts. Ibn Khaldun's theory of knowledge suggests several educational implications. It implies formulating comprehensive educational aims, such as producing a Muslim, whose is a firm believer in Allah and his spiritual, intellectual, and physical growth is well balanced, and supporting a system of life where the religious and worldly affairs are inseparable and integral parts of one whole.…
  note: by Khaled M.A. Al-Halabi
  note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2013.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-237)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ibn Khaldun
      name part: 1332-1406
    topic: Contributions in the theory of knowledge
  classification: D116.7.I13
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/3887
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 130826
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng