Ibn Khaldun Encyclopedia
Many of us hear about Ibn Khaldun, especially the Introduction to Ibn Khaldun, thinking that Ibn Khaldun wrote one book called the Introduction, but on the contrary, Ibn Khaldun is a historical encyclopedia compiled in seven volumes and its name is: The Book of Lessons, the Diwan of the Beginner, and the News in the Days of the Arabs, Persians, Berbers, and Those Who Contemporarily Have the Greatest Sultan. So that the first volume or book is headed by the title Introduction.
The introduction was later considered a separate book with an encyclopedic nature, as it deals with all fields of knowledge, including Sharia, history, geography, economics, urbanism, sociology, politics, and medicine. It dealt with the conditions of humans, the differences in their natures, the environment, and its impact on humans. He also studied the development of nations and peoples, the emergence of the state, and the causes of its collapse, focusing in explaining this on the concept of fanaticism. With this book, Ibn Khaldun preceded other thinkers in many opinions and ideas until he was considered the founder of sociology, preceded by the French philosopher Auguste Comte.
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